different between tiding vs tiling

English

Alternative forms

• tidinde (obsolete)
• tidind (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English tiding, tidinge (also tidinde, tidende, etc.), from Late Old English t?dung, from t?dan (“to befall; happen”), probably with assimilation to -ing.Either from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi ( > Danish/Norwegian tidende). Cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?d??/

Noun

tiding (plural tidings)

1. (archaic or literary, usually in the plural) news; new information
   • Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin. — A traditional Christmas carol.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
     What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
     What ?hippis are ?ailing to Scalis Malis?
     And all is not worth a couple of nut ?halis.

   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury

     But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!

Translations

Verb

tiding

1. present participle of tide

References

Anagrams

• diting, tingid

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?l??/
• Rhymes: -a?l??

Noun

tiling (countable and uncountable, plural tilings)

1. A covering of tiles.

   All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it.

2. (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.

   We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom.

3. (geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
4. (computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.

Translations

Verb

tiling

1. present participle of tile

Anagrams

• liting