pile

IPA: pˈaɪɫ

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.

(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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