pile
IPA: pˈaɪɫ
noun
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- 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 (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- A list or league
- (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.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- 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; the nap of a cloth.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (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.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
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Examples of "pile" in Sentences
- He piled and assorted the files.
- The largest pile decides the winner.
- The rest of the deck becomes the pile.
- The pile can be plush or other fabrics.
- It is the putrescent pile for plastic bags.
- The UK was a pile of rubble in the mid forties.
- Piles of firewood lined the streets in the area.
- The fury and dissatisfaction piled at the same time.
- The remainder of the deck then becomes the stock pile.
- Acceleration of the pile and of the weight are measured and recorded.