tarmac vs tile

tarmac

verb
  • To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material. 

  • To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance. 

noun
  • The area of an airport, other than the runway, where planes park or maneuver. 

  • The driveable surface of a road. 

  • Tarmacadam. 

  • Any bituminous road surfacing material. 

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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