Tile vs. Brick

Tilenoun

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.

Tilenoun

(computing) A rectangular graphic.

Tilenoun

Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.

Tilenoun

(dated) A stiff hat.

Tileverb

(transitive) To cover with tiles.

Tileverb

(computing) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).

Tileverb

(comptheory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.

Tileverb

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

Tileverb

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

Tileverb

To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

Tileverb

Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

Tilenoun

A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

Tilenoun

A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.

Tilenoun

A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

Tilenoun

A draintile.

Tilenoun

A stiff hat.

Tilenoun

a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces

Tilenoun

a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

Tileverb

cover with tiles;

Tile

Tiles are thin objects, usually square or rectangular in shape. A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, or other objects such as tabletops.

Bricknoun

(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.

Bricknoun

(uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.

Bricknoun

(countable) Something shaped like a brick.

Bricknoun

A helpful and reliable person.

Bricknoun

A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.

Bricknoun

(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.

Bricknoun

An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.

Bricknoun

(firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.

Bricknoun

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

Bricknoun

The colour brick red.

Brickadjective

Extremely cold.

Brickverb

To build with bricks.

Brickverb

To make into bricks.

Brickverb

(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.

Brickverb

To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.

Bricknoun

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

Bricknoun

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

Bricknoun

Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

Bricknoun

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

Brickverb

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

Brickverb

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

Bricknoun

rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

Bricknoun

a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

Bricknoun

a small rectangular block typically made of fired or sun-dried clay, used in building.

Bricknoun

bricks collectively as a building material

Bricknoun

a small rectangular object

Bricknoun

a child's toy building block

Bricknoun

a large and relatively heavy mobile phone, typically an early model with limited functionality

Bricknoun

a smartphone or other electronic device that has completely ceased to function

Bricknoun

a generous, helpful, and reliable person

Brickverb

block or enclose with a wall of bricks

Brickverb

throw bricks at

Brickverb

cause (a smartphone or other electronic device) to become completely unable to function, typically on a permanent basis

Brickverb

be extremely worried or nervous.

Brick

A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured construction blocks.