Tile vs Grid - What's the difference?
tile | grid |
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.
A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, such structures being known as a computational grid or simply grid computing, and used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
(cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
(motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Andrew Benson, work=BBC Sport
, title= (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
To mark with a grid.
To assign a reference grid to.
As nouns the difference between tile and grid
is that 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 while grid is (disease|obsolete) gay-related immunodeficiency — former name of aids.As a verb 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
Anagrams
*grid
English
(wikipedia grid)Noun
(en noun)- You can't turn off the building from here; you have to shut down the whole grid .
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid'. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national ' grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.}}