Tile
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cover with tiles. To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, stove tile, etc. A rectangular graphic. Any of various types of rectangular playing piece used in certain games, such as in Scrabble, mahjong, or Rummikub.
Brick
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Made of brick(s).
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To build with bricks.To make into bricks.To hit someone using a brick.To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.To be in a high state of anxiety or fright: "Bricking it"
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.Considered collectively, as a building material.Something shaped like a brick.A helpful and reliable personA 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.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.An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
Example sentence: I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.