pile in English dictionary

  • pile

    Meanings and definitions of "pile"

    • (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
    • A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
    • A funeral pile; a pyre.
    • A large building, or mass of buildings.
    • A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
    • A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta’s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
    • (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
    • (transitive) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood.
    • (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
    • (transitive) To add something to a great number.
    • (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
    • Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
    • The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.
    • (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
    • The head of an arrow or spear.
    • A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
    • (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
    • (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
    • (usually in plural) A hemorrhoid.
    • A mass of things heaped together; a heap
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      A dart; an arrow.
    • noun
      The head of an arrow or spear.
    • noun
      A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
    • noun
      (heraldry)
      One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
    • noun
      (chiefly in the plural)
      A hemorrhoid.
    • noun
      A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
    • noun
      (figuratively, informal)
      A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
    • noun
      A mass formed in layers.
    • noun
      A funeral pile; a pyre.
    • noun
      A large building, or mass of buildings.
    • noun
      A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
    • noun
      A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta’s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
    • noun
      (figuratively)
      A list or league
    • noun
      Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
    • noun
      The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To add something to a great number.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
    • verb
      (transitive, military)
      To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
    • heap
    • group or list of related items
    • galvanic pile
    • fine or short hair
    • stake of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth
    • pile (fabric, nuclear reactor, structural support, etc.)
    • pile (of things)
    • a pile (of something)
    • A great number or large amount of things not placed in a pile.
    • To put together several things in one pile; to arrange in stacks.
    • To press tightly together or cram.
    • noun
      a collection of objects laid on top of each other
    • noun
      a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
    • noun
      a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
    • noun
      a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
    • noun
      battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
    • noun
      fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
    • noun
      (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
    • noun
      the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"
    • verb
      arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
    • verb
      place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
    • verb
      press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"

    Synonyms of "pile" in English dictionary

    piling, great deal, mint are the top synonyms of "pile" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of pile

    • pile ( plural  piles)
    • pile ( third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
    • pile (plural piles)
    • pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
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