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Gravitate vs Tile - What's the difference?

gravitate | tile |

As verbs the difference between gravitate and tile

is that gravitate is to move under the force of gravity while tile is to cover with tiles or tile can be to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

As a noun 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.

gravitate

English

Verb

(gravitat)
  • To move under the force of gravity.
  • * 1712 , Sir , Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books , book II:
    • The?e, who have nature's ?teps with care pur?ued,
    That matter is with ac&
  • 8205;tive force endued,
    That all its parts magnetic power exert,
    And to each other gravitate , a??ert.
  • (figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
    • Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
  • * 1776 , , Wealth of Nations :
    • The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating .
  • * 1923 , , "J.B. Runs Things":
    • Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

    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

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