Foil vs Tile - What's the difference?
foil | tile |
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.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (computing) A rectangular graphic.
Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
(dated) A stiff hat.
To cover with tiles.
(computing) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
As nouns the difference between foil and tile
is that foil is a very thin sheet of metal or foil can be failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage or foil can be (hunting) the track of an animal while tile is 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.As verbs the difference between foil and tile
is that foil is to prevent (something) from being accomplished or foil can be (mathematics) to multiply two binomials together or foil can be (obsolete) to defile; to soil while tile is to cover with tiles or tile can be to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.tile
English
(wikipedia tile)Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
- (Dickens)
Derived terms
* glazed tile * out on the tiles * tileworkVerb
Etymology 2
See .Alternative forms
* tyleVerb
(til)- to tile a Masonic lodge
- tile the door
