6. (v.t.)pile to lay or dispose in a pile: to pile up leaves.
7. pile to accumulate or store (often fol. by up): to pile up money.
8. pile to cover or load with a pile.
9. (v.i.)pile to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usu. fol. by up).
10. pile to move as a group in a more or less disorderly cluster.
11. pile to gather or rise in a pile (often fol. by up).
12. (n.)pile a cylindrical or flatmember of wood, steel, concrete, etc., hammered vertically into soil to form part of a foundation or retaining wall.
13. pile a triangular heraldic charge.
14. pile the sharp head or striking end of an arrow.
15. (v.t.)pile to drive piles into.
16. (n.)pile a surface or thickness of soft hair, down, wool, or other pelage.
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"
4. (noun)down, pile fine soft dense hair (as the fine shorthair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
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"
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
8. (noun)pile a funeral pile; a pyre
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.