What's the difference between filing and tiling?

Filing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of File
  • (n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (2) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
  • (3) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
  • (4) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
  • (6) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (7) He then read out nine of the 2,116 incident reports that make up the Nauru files.
  • (8) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
  • (9) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
  • (10) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
  • (11) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
  • (12) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (13) Another feature of TWINAN90 is the optional output of a pedigree file which can be read by the quantitative genetics package FISHER.
  • (14) THE PERKINS FILE Born Susan Elizabeth Perkins, 22 September 1969 in Croydon, south London.
  • (15) One suspects theatregoers will be encouraged to keep their electronic devices on, with live data used to demonstrate some of the content of the Snowden files .
  • (16) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
  • (17) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
  • (18) A number of other news organisations yesterday published reports based on files they had received from WikiLeaks.
  • (19) (4) The majority view was that the data for both types of files should come from more than one agency.
  • (20) Her post- X-Files performances have been carefully chosen and doggedly unstarry.

Tiling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tile
  • (n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
  • (n.) Tiles, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
  • (2) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (3) The artist covered every inch of the steps in front of his house in tiles, ceramics and mirrors – originally in the green, yellow, blue and white of the Brazilian flag, later adding tiles in other colours brought by visitors.
  • (4) The infected cells treated by this method showed light green fluorescence of the protoplasm, with a dark nucleus, while the intact cells had tile-red cytoplasm.
  • (5) The results of these experiments demonstrated a significant superiority of this modification over the conventional techniques, particularly over the tile technique used generally in this country.
  • (6) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
  • (7) The algorithm presented has been developed to choose the tiling which minimizes the estimated error when the tile approximation of the surface is used in subsequent quantitative algorithm such as the calculation of surface area.
  • (8) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
  • (9) Any of the original N2 fields or composites of M adjacent tiles can be recalled to the video display for analysis.
  • (10) "There's so much graphic detail in some of the tiles that they seem to speak with a modern voice," adds Roberts.
  • (11) Tritium retention noted in graphite tiles underscores the significance of material selection in present and future 3H-fueled fusion devices.
  • (12) The efficacy of defibrillation using the damped sine and constant-tile (60%) truncated exponential waveforms was determined in each of nine dogs.
  • (13) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
  • (14) The genius of The Great British Bake Off Read more Viewers have seen contestants throw pots blindfolded, and create objects ranging from bone china chandeliers to decorated tiles and bathroom sinks.
  • (15) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
  • (16) Ceramic samples such as tiles and bricks were collected from locations between 523 and 2,453 m from the hypocenter in Hiroshima and from between 731 and 1,565 m in Nagasaki.
  • (17) At that time X----- itself was untouched by shot and shell, the old houses in the square with their quaint red-tiled roofs, irregular as peaks of a sierra, and their higgledy-piggledy doors and windows, were as yet intact.
  • (18) Centro Cerámica Triana Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Housed in an old ceramics factory built on the site of a 16th-century one, inevitably plonked on a Roman one, this museum (€2pp, Calle Antillano Campos 14) could do more to trumpet the industry that spawned Triana, created the look and feel of Seville, and inspired Lisbon’s artisans to have a go at the whole tile thing.
  • (19) Pictures showed a large group of people lying on polished tiled flooring, most of them near to a wall and surrounded by rubble and other debris.
  • (20) 120 Grosvenor Street, 0161 273 1552, sandbarmanchester.co.uk Marble Arch The Marble Arch pub, Manchester It's 125 years old but this handsome Victorian boozer – all glazed tile work and vintage detail – has never been busier.