tar vs tile

tar

verb
  • To coat with tar. 

  • To besmirch. 

  • To create a tar archive. 

noun
  • A file produced by such a program. 

  • A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. 

  • A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus. 

  • A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke. 

  • A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East. 

  • Black tar, a form of heroin. 

  • Coal tar. 

  • A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems. 

tile

verb
  • To cover with tiles. 

  • To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people. 

  • To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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