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Definition of 'pile' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pile
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
a pile of papers.

2.  pile
a large number, quantity, or amount of anything:
a pile of work.

3.  pile
a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.

4.  pile
a lofty or large building or group of buildings:
the noble pile of Windsor Castle.

5.  pile
Informal. a large accumulation of money.

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 flat member 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 short hair 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"


Definition of 'pile' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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

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.


Translation of 'pile' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

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.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: hoop Arabic flag Arabic: كَوْمَه، عُرْمَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: камара
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pilha Czech flag Czech: stoh, hromada German flag German: der Haufen
Danish flag Danish: bunke; dynge Greek flag Greek: στοίβα, σωρός Spanish flag Spanish: montón, pila
Estonian flag Estonian: virn Farsi flag Farsi: توده؛ کپه Finnish flag Finnish: kasa
French flag French: pile Hebrew flag Hebrew: עֲרֵימָה Hindi flag Hindi: ढेर
Croatian flag Croatian: kup Hungarian flag Hungarian: halom Indonesian flag Indonesian: tumpukan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hrúga Italian flag Italian: pila, mucchio Japanese flag Japanese: 積み重ね
Korean flag Korean: 더미 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: krūva, rietuvė, šūsnis Latvian flag Latvian: kaudze;čupa
Malay flag Malay: timbunan Dutch flag Dutch: stapel, hoop Norwegian flag Norwegian: stabel, bunke, haug
Polish flag Polish: stos, sterta Persian flag Persian: توده؛ کپه Pashto flag Pashto: اړم، ستنه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pilha Romanian flag Romanian: grămadă Russian flag Russian: стопка; кипа; груда
Slovak flag Slovak: kopa, hromada Slovenian flag Slovenian: kup Serbian flag Serbian: gomila
Swedish flag Swedish: hög, stapel, trave Thai flag Thai: กอง Turkish flag Turkish: yığın, küme
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: в'язка, пакунок Urdu flag Urdu: انبار
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: đống: chồng Chinese flag Chinese: 

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