tyle

Verb (1)

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles.
   • The handyman tiled the kitchen.
2. To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
3. To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
4. To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.

Verb (2)

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
   • to tile a Masonic lodge

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