different between tiling vs titling

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

English

Etymology 1

See title.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?tl???/, /?ta?tl??/

Verb

titling

1. present participle of title

Noun

titling (plural titlings)

1. The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.
2. (law) A legal right to a property; holding a title.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Superficially tit (“a small bird”) +? -ling (“small”). Attested from the 16th century. Probably from Icelandic titlingr (“tit sparrow”), Old Norse titlingr (“sparrow”). Compare Old Norse tittr (“titmouse”). Also see Middle English titmose (“titmouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?tl??/

Noun

titling (plural titlings)

1. The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis.
2. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
3. (obsolete, in customhouses) Stockfish.

Translations

References

• titling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “titling²”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Tlingit, litting, tilting