What's the difference between tile and tole?

Tile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
  • (n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.
  • (n.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
  • (n.) A draintile.
  • (n.) A stiff hat.
  • (v. t.) To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

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.

Tole


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple attempts at contacting Toles, who now lives in Wisconsin, were unsuccessful.
  • (2) He wasn’t the most credible witness: Toles promptly stated on the stand that he lied in order to get better housing placement in jail.
  • (3) The tolE mutation causes tolerance to colicins E2 and E3 as well as other effects on the phenotype of Escherichia coli K-12.
  • (4) A possible tole of UV-damaged phage DNA in propagation of infection and in maturation of phage particles is discussed.
  • (5) Toles related that Harris’s admissions upset him because what Harris did was wrong,” the police recorded the snitch explaining.
  • (6) Despite Harris’s vociferous protestations that he would never say such a thing to a total stranger, and his public defender Andrea Lyon’s objections, Toles testified at Harris’s trial.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both Lee Harris’s friend and a former colleague remember this letter as being from David Toles, a jailhouse snitch who said he overheard Harris admitting to a murder and whom an appellate judge called an ‘admitted liar’.
  • (8) So did a former co-worker, John Innis, who remembered the letter and vouched for Toles’ authorship of it to the Guardian.
  • (9) David Toles, who was 26 and locked up for burglary and auto theft at the time, said he overheard Harris in a Cook County jail dayroom confess to the murder shortly after he introduced himself to Harris, so they could play blackjack.
  • (10) The map position is shown by the gene order trp-purB-tolE-tolD-galKETO.
  • (11) Asked if it was difficult to remember his lies, Toles stated to the court: “Well, not really, if it is for your own benefit.” Conspicuously, after his testimony, Toles pleaded guilty on a burglary charge that and received a three-year sentence.

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