1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap.
2. Informal
a. A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of work to do.
b. A large amount of money: made a pile in the real estate boom.
3. A nuclear reactor.
4. A voltaic pile.
5. A very large building or complex of buildings.
6. A funeral pyre.
v.piled, pil·ing, piles
v.tr.
1.
a. To place or lay in a pile or heap: piled books onto the table.
b. To load (something) with a heap or pile: piled the table with books.
2. To add or increase to abundance or to a point of burdensomeness: piled homework on the students.
v.intr.
1. To form a heap or pile.
2. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group: pile into a bus; pile out of a car.
Phrasal Verbs:
pile on
1. To leap onto an existing pile of people, especially football players.
2. To add or increase (something, such as criticism) abundantly or excessively.
pile up
1. To accumulate: Work is piling up.
2. Informal To undergo a serious vehicular collision.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīla, pillar.]
pile2
pile 2
(pīl)
n.
1. A heavy post of timber, concrete, or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.
2. Heraldry A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.
3. A Roman javelin.
tr.v.piled, pil·ing, piles
1. To drive piles into.
2. To support with piles.
[Middle English, from Old English pīl, shaft, stake, from Latin pīlum, spear, pestle.]
pile 3
(pīl)
n.
1.
a. Cut or uncut loops of yarn forming the surface of certain fabrics, such as velvet, plush, and carpeting.
b. The surface so formed.
2. Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.
[From Middle English piles(attested only in plural) downy hair, downy plumage, partly from Anglo-Norman peil, pil, hair, coat (as of a horse), cloth with a thick nap, and partly from Latin pilus, hair (Anglo-Norman, from Latin).]
7. (General Physics) physics a structure of uranium and a moderator used for producing atomic energy; nuclear reactor
8. (Metallurgy) metallurgy an arrangement of wrought-iron bars that are to be heated and worked into a single bar
9. (Archery) the point of an arrow
vb
10. (often foll by up) to collect or be collected into or as if into a pile: snow piled up in the drive.
11. (intr; foll by in, into, off, out, etc) to move in a group, esp in a hurried or disorganized manner: to pile off the bus.
12. (Military) pile arms to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
13. pile it on informal to exaggerate
[C15: via Old French from Latin pīla stone pier]
pile
(paɪl)
n
1. (Civil Engineering) a long column of timber, concrete, or steel that is driven into the ground to provide a foundation for a vertical load (a bearing pile) or a group of such columns to resist a horizontal load from earth or water pressure (a sheet pile)
2. (Heraldry) heraldry an ordinary shaped like a wedge, usually displayed point-downwards
vb (tr)
3. (Civil Engineering) to drive (piles) into the ground
4. (Civil Engineering) to provide or support (a structure) with piles
[Old English pīl, from Latin pīlum]
pile
(paɪl)
n
1. (Textiles) textiles
a. the yarns in a fabric that stand up or out from the weave, as in carpeting, velvet, flannel, etc
b. one of these yarns
2. (Textiles) soft fine hair, fur, wool, etc
[C15: from Anglo-Norman pyle, from Latin pilus hair]
a disordered heap of things; a large clump or collection of things; a heap of wood or faggots; a lofty mass of buildings.
Examples: pile of dead carcasses, 1656; of clothes, 1440; of clouds, 1812; of conjectures, 1835; of faggots, 1902; of islands; of justice, 1770; of letters and packages, 1891; of money, 1876; of shot; of stones; of trees, 1854; of wealth, 1613; of weapons, 1608; of wood, 1744.
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shock - a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock"
slagheap - pile of waste matter from coal mining etc
funeral pyre, pyre - wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
woodpile - a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel
stockpile - a storage pile accumulated for future use
2.
pile - (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"
hair - a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss; "he combed his hair"; "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"
lanugo - the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
5.
pile - battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
pile - 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"
nuclear reactor, reactor - (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements
Verb
1.
pile - arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
crowd together, crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
3.
pile - place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
vi → s'entasser The gates have opened and the crowd are piling in → Les portes se sont ouvertes et la foule s'entasse. My uncle had a Transit van and we'd all pile in → Mon oncle avait une camionnette et nous nous y entassions tous.
pile into
vt fus
(= enter in a disorganized way) → s'entasser dans They all piled into his car → Ils se sont tous entassés dans sa voiture.
(= heap) → Stapelm, → Stoßm; to put things in a pile → etw (auf)stapeln; her things lay or were in a pile → ihre Sachenlagen auf einem Haufen; he made a pile of the books → er stapelte die Bücheraufeinander; at the bottom/top of the pile(fig) → untenan/obenauf
(inf: = large amount) → Haufenm, → Mengef, → Massef; a great pile of work → eine MengeorMasse(inf) → Arbeit; piles of money/trouble/food → eine or jede Menge(inf) → Geld/Ärger/Essen; a pile of things to do → massenhaft zu tun(inf)
1. 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. hoop كَوْمَه، عُرْمَه камара pilha stoh, hromada der Haufen bunke; dynge στοίβα, σωρόςmontón, pila virn توده؛ کپه kasa pile עֲרֵימָה ढेर kup halom tumpukan hrúga pila, mucchio 積み重ね 더미 krūva, rietuvė, šūsnis kaudze; čupa timbunan stapel, hoopstabel, bunke, haugstos, sterta اړم، ستنه pilha grămadă стопка; кипа; груда kopa, hromada kup gomila hög, stapel, trave กอง yığın, küme 堆 в'язка, пакунок انبار đống: chồng 堆
2. a large quantity, especially of money. He must have piles of money to own a car like that. hoop ثَرْوَه، مِقْدار كَبير من المال състояние pilhas moře der Haufen bunke μεγάλη ποσότητα montón, pila palju مقدار زیاد kasa paquet הָמוֹן כֶּסֶף ढेर, अंबार, राशि gomila nagy vagyon setumpuk ógrynni , mucchio 大量 거액의 돈 krūva kaudze; žūksnis bertimbun-timbun hoopformue; haugevis med kupa ډيرۍ montes teanc куча, масса more, kopa kup gomila en massa, högvis จำนวนมาก çok, bir yığın 大數目 купа دولت کا ذخيرہ số lượng lớn 大数目
verb
to make a pile of (something); to put (something) in a pile. He piled the boxes on the table. stapel يُكَوِّم трупам empilhar naskládat aufhäufen dynge; stable στοιβάζωamontonar, apilar kuhjama انباشتن kasata empiler לַעֲרוֹם ढेर लगाना nagomilati felhalmoz menumpuk stafla ammucchiare, ammonticchiare 積み重ねる 쌓다 sudėti, sukrauti kraut kaudzē melonggokkan opstapelenstable, dyngeukładać بارول empilhar a îngrămădi складывать; сваливать naukladať/dať na kopu zložiti na kup naređati stapla, trava สุมไว้เป็นกอง yığmak, kümelemek 堆積 складати в купу انبار لگانا xếp thành chồng 堆积
ˈpile-up noun
an accident or crash involving usually several vehicles. There has been a serious pile-up on the motorway, involving three cars and a lorry. kettingbotsing حادِث طُرُق لعِدَّة سَيّارات верижна катастрофа engavetamento hromadná srážka die Massenkarambolage harmonikasammenstød καραμπόλα accidente múltiple, colisión ahelavarii تصادف چندین خودرو با هم ketjukolari carambolage תְּאונַת שַׁרשֶׁרֶת ढेर लगना nagomilati, razbiti (vozilo) ráfutásos baleset tabrakan beruntun margfaldur árekstur tamponamento 玉突き衝突 연쇄 충돌사고 susidūrimas vairāku mašīnu saskriešanās perlanggaran yg bertindan-tindih kettingbotsingkjedekollisjonkarambol د څو موټرو ټكر choque em cadeiaстолкновение hromadná zrážka verižno trčenje lančani sudar seriekrock รถชนกันหลายคัน zincirleme kaza 數輛汽車同時碰撞事故 зіткнення کئي گاڑيوں کا ايک ساتھ ايکسيڈنٹ vụ xe cộ đâm nhau 数辆汽车同时碰撞事故
pile up
to make or become a pile; to accumulate. He piled up the earth at the end of the garden; The rubbish piled up in the kitchen. ophoop يُكَوِّم натрупвам се empilhar(-se) nahromadit se aufhäufen samle; hobe sig op στοιβάζω, στοιβάζομαι amontonarse, acumularse kuhjama, kuhjuma انباشتن؛ جمع کردن kasaantua entasser לְהֵיעַרֵם इकट्ठा होना, क्रम में होना या कराना nagurati, nagomilati (fel)halmoz menimbun hrúga; hlaðast upp ammassare, accumulare 積み重ねる 쌓다 su(si)kaupti kraut kaudzē; uzkrāties melonggokkan opstapelenhope seg opp, stable oppgromadzić się جمع کول empilhar(-se) a (se) strânge накапливать; скапливаться nahromadiť (sa) nakopičiti (se) nagomilati lägga upp i en hög, samla[s], hopa[s] กองสุม yığmak, birikmek 堆積 накопичувати ڈھير لگ جانا chất đống 堆积
pile2
(pail) noun
a large pillar or stake driven into the ground as a foundation for a building, bridge etc. The entire city of Venice is built on piles. heipaal رَكيزَه، عَمود، خازوق пилон estaca kůl der Pfahl pille; pæl πάσσαλοςpilote, pilar vai ستون paalu pilot, pieu מוֹט-יְסוֹד भूस्तंभ, स्थूल zašiljen stup kao temelj (nosilac) cölöp pilar, tiang pancang burðarstólpi/-staur pila, pilastro 抗 말뚝, 강재(鋼材) polis pālis cerucuk heipaalpåle, pælpal اړم،ستنه estaca pilon свая kôl pilot stub påle ตอม่อ büyük kazık 樁 паля, стояк پل کا ستون عمارت کي شہتير cọc 桩
ˈpile-driver noun
a machine for driving piles into the ground. paalheier مِدَق الرَّكائِز أو الخوازيق сонда bate-estacas beranidlo der Pfahlrammer rambuk μηχάνημα τοποθέτησης πασσάλων martinete ramm تیر کوب juntta sonnette מְכוֹנָה לִתקִיעַת מוֹטוֹת जमीन में खंभा डालने की एक मशीन zabijač teških stupova cölöpverő gép mesin pemancang fallhamar battipalo 抗打ち機 말뚝 박는 기계 poliakalė pāļdzinis penghentak cerucuk heimachinerambukk kafar تیر کوب bate-estacas sonetă копёр baranidlo zabijalo za pilote nabijač stubova pålkran เครื่องตอกเสาเข็ม şahmerdan, kazık tokmağı 打樁機 копер مشين جس سے ستون بنياد ميں ڈالا جائے máy đóng cọc 打桩机
pile3
(pail) noun
the thick soft surface of carpets and some kinds of cloth eg velvet. The rug has a deep/thick pile. pool زَغَب мъх pelo vlas der Flor luv πέλος pelo pinnavill پرز nukka poil, poilגבחת एक विशेष प्रकार का कपड़ा dlakava strana (tkanine, saga) bolyh(osság) lapisan empuk flos pelo 毛 보풀 pūkas pūkas; vilna; uzkārsums pail pool lowłos, puszek پرز pelo păr; pluş; parte scămoşată (a unei stofe) ворс vlas; srsť vlaknata površina čupava strana tepiha lugg, flor ขนกำมะหยี่ tüy, hav 絨面 ворс روئيں mặt thảm mịn 绒面
Chronicity may be suggested by sentinel pile at the distal fissure margin, heaped-up fissure edges, visible sphincter fibers at fissure base, or an inflammatory polyp at the inner fissure margin.
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