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Toil vs Tile - What's the difference?

toil | tile |

As nouns the difference between toil and tile

is that toil is labour, work 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 toil and tile

is that toil is to labour; work while tile is to cover with tiles or tile can be to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

toil

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • labour, work
  • * 1908:
    • ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
  • trouble, strife
  • A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
  • * Denham
    • As a Numidian lion, when first caught, / Endures the toil that holds him.
  • * Dryden
    • Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To labour; work.
  • To struggle.
  • To work (something); often with out .
  • * Holland
    • places well toiled and husbanded
  • * Milton
    • [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
  • To weary through excessive labour.
  • * Shakespeare
    • toiled with works of war

    Synonyms

    * , (l)

    See also

    * toil and moil

    Anagrams

    * ----

    tile

    English

    (wikipedia tile)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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.}}
  • (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.
    • (Dickens)
    Derived terms
    * glazed tile * out on the tiles * tilework
    Related terms
    * tiler

    Verb

  • 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).
    • Related terms
    * tiler

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Alternative forms

    * tyle

    Verb

    (til)
  • To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
    • to tile a Masonic lodge
    tile the door

    Anagrams

    *