17. pile a soft or brushy surface on cloth, rugs, etc., formed by upright yarns that have been cut straight across or left standing in loops.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME pyles (pl.) < L pilae lit., balls. See pill1)
Definition of 'Pile'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus a collection of objects laid on top of each other
2. (noun)batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (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"
3. (noun)pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
5. (noun)voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
6. (noun)pile, spile, piling, stilt a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
7. (noun)pile, nap 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"
8. (verb)atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
9. (verb)stack, pile, heap arrange in stacks "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
10. (verb)throng, mob, pack, pile, jam press tightly together or cram "The crowd packed the auditorium"
11. (verb)pile place or lay as if in a pile "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
1. (noun)pile a number of things on top of each other piles of paper/clothes; I found it in a pile of old books.
2. pile a lot He inherited a pile of money.
3. (verb)pile to make a pile of things Just pile the bags over in the corner.; trucks piled high with firewood
Definition of 'Pile'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Pile a hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet
2. (noun)Pile a covering of hair or fur
3. (noun)Pile the head of an arrow or spear
4. (noun)Pile a large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc
5. (noun)Pile one of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost
6. (noun)Pile a mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood
7. (noun)Pile a mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot
9. (noun)Pile a large building, or mass of buildings
10. (noun)Pile same as Fagot, n., 2
11. (noun)Pile 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
12. (noun)Pile the reverse of a coin. See Reverse
13. (verb)Pile to drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles
14. (verb)Pile 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
15. (verb)Pile to cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load
Definition of 'Pile'
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
1. Pile A galvanic or voltaic battery. It is sometimes restricted to a number of voltaic couples connected. It should be only applied to batteries with superimposed plates and no containing vessel such as the Dry Pile, q. v., or Volta's Pile, q. v.
Sense: a (large) number of things lying on top of each other in a tidy or untidy heap; a (large) quantity of something lying in a heap There was a neat pile of books in the corner of the room; There was pile of rubbish at the bottom of the garden.
Definitions of Pile 
Afrikaans: hoop
Arabic: كَوْمَه، عُرْمَه
Bulgarian: камара
Brazilian: pilha
Czech: stoh, hromada
German: der Haufen
Danish: bunke; dynge
Greek: στοίβα, σωρός
Spanish: montón, pila
Estonian: virn
Farsi: توده؛ کپه
Finnish: kasa
French: pile
Hebrew: עֲרֵימָה
Hindi: ढेर
Croatian: kup
Hungarian: halom
Indonesian: tumpukan
Icelandic: hrúga
Italian: pila, mucchio
Japanese: 積み重ね
Korean: 더미
Lithuanian: krūva, rietuvė, šūsnis
Latvian: kaudze;čupa
Malay: timbunan
Dutch: stapel, hoop
Norwegian: stabel, bunke, haug
Polish: stos, sterta
Persian: توده؛ کپه
Pashto: اړم، ستنه
Portuguese: pilha
Romanian: grămadă
Russian: стопка; кипа; груда
Slovak: kopa, hromada
Slovenian: kup
Serbian: gomila
Swedish: hög, stapel, trave
Thai: กอง
Turkish: yığın, küme
Taiwanese: 堆
Ukrainian: в'язка, пакунок
Urdu: انبار
Vietnamese: đống: chồng
Chinese: 堆
