'Pile' definitions:

Definition of 'pile'

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noun
A collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus]
noun
(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" [syn: 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]
noun
A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money]
noun
Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) [syn: down, pile]
noun
Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile]
noun
A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt]
noun
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" [syn: pile, nap]
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A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy [syn: atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor]
verb
Arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: stack, pile, heap]
verb
Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam]
verb
Place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

Definition of 'Pile'

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  • Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilus hair. Cf. Peruke.]
  • 1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. [1913 Webster]
  • Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pile'

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  • Pile \Pile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piled; p. pr. & vb. n. Piling.]
  • 1. 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. "Hills piled on hills." --Dryden. "Life piled on life." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. [1913 Webster]
  • To pile arms To pile muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms. [1913 Webster] Pileate

Definition of 'Pile'

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  • Pile \Pile\, v. t. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. [1913 Webster]
  • To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pile'

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  • Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilum javelin. See Pile a stake.] The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pile'

From: GCIDE
  • Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[imac]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin; but cf. also L. pila pillar.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. [1913 Webster]
  • Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles.
  • Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles.
  • Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.
  • Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake.
  • Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling.
  • Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic.
  • Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pile'

From: GCIDE
  • Pile \Pile\, n. [F. pile, L. pila a pillar, a pier or mole of stone. Cf. Pillar.]
  • 1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A large building, or mass of buildings. [1913 Webster]
  • The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Elec.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. [1913 Webster]
  • Cross and pile. See under Cross.
  • Dry pile. See under Dry. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pile'

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  • Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. Pill a medicine.] (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids.
  • Note: [The singular pile is sometimes used.] [1913 Webster]
  • Blind piles, hemorrhoids which do not bleed. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'pile'

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Words containing 'Pile'