To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.
To take cover.
A refuge, haven or other cover or protection from something.
An institution that provides temporary housing for homeless people, battered women, etc.
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
To cover with tiles.
Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
A rectangular graphic.