tile vs wallpaper

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. 

wallpaper

verb
  • To cover (a wall, a room, etc) with wallpaper. 

noun
  • Anything that serves as a background or part of the surroundings. 

  • Generic footage of a building or location that may be used in the background of a related news report. 

  • Decorative paper-like material used to cover the inner walls of buildings. 

  • A roll of such paper. 

  • A style or design of such material. 

  • A radio operator's collection of awards and QSL cards. 

  • An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop. 

  • Gaudy mass-produced stamps, typically of little or no value and only produced for sale to collectors. 

How often have the words tile and wallpaper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )