pile 1 (p l)n. 1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap. 2. Informal A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of trouble. 3. Slang A large sum of money; a fortune: made their pile in the commodities market. 4. A funeral pyre. 5. A very large building or complex of buildings. 6. A nuclear reactor. 7. A voltaic pile. v. piled, pil·ing, piles v.tr. 1. a. To place or lay in or as if 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 heap (something) in abundance: piled potato salad onto the plate. v.intr. Phrasal Verb: 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. pile up 1. To accumulate. 2. Informal To undergo a serious vehicular collision. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin p la, pillar.] |
| pile 2 (pl) n. 1. A heavy beam 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 p l, shaft, stake, from Latin plum, spear, pestle.] |
| pile 3 (pl) 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, hair, plumage, probably from Middle Dutch pijl, fine hair, and Middle Low German pile, downy plumage, both from Latin pilus, hair.] piled adj. |
pile 1
Noun
1. a collection of objects laid on top of one another
2. Informal a large amount: boxing has made him a pile of money, I've got piles of work to do
3. same as pyre
4. a large building or group of buildings
5. Physics a nuclear reactor
Verb
[piling, piled]
1. (often foll. by up)to collect or be collected into a pile: snow piled up in the drive
2. (foll. by in, into, off, out)etc. to move in a group, often in a hurried manner: the crew piled into the van
3. pile it on Informal to exaggerate
See also pile up [Latin pila stone pier]
pile 2
Noun
a long heavy beam driven into the ground as a foundation for a structure [Latin pilum]
pile 3
Noun
the fibres in a fabric that stand up or out from the weave, such as in carpeting or velvet [Latin pilus hair]
Pile 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.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  pile - a collection of objects laid on top of each otheraggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole compost heap, compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost scrapheap - pile of discarded metal 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 stack - an orderly pile 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"good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, muckle, passel, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, stack, raft, mountain, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude deluge, flood, inundation, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" haymow - a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | |
| 3. |  pile - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" money - wealth reckoned in terms of money; "all his money is in real estate" | |
| 4. | 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) 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 Voltaelectric battery, battery - a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | |
| 6. |  pile - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structurepillar, column - (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling - a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage | |
| 7. |  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" | |
| 8. |  pile - a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energynuclear 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" arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" rick - pile in ricks; "rick hay" cord - stack in cords; "cord firewood" |
| 2. | pile - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" 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" |
pile 1
noun 1. heap, collection, mountain, mass, stack, rick, mound, accumulation, stockpile, hoard, assortment, assemblage
noun 2. (Informal) (often plural) lot(s), mountain(s), load(s) (informal) oceans, wealth, great deal, stack(s), abundance, large quantity, oodles (informal) shedload Brit. (informal)
noun 3. mansion, building, residence, manor, country house, seat, big house, stately home, manor house
noun 4. (Informal) fortune, bomb Brit. (slang) pot, packet (slang) mint, big money, wad U.S., Canad. (slang) big bucks (informal), chiefly U.S. megabucks U.S., Canad. (slang) tidy sum (informal) pretty penny (informal) top whack (informal)
pile something up
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Translations
pile [paɪl] n (= heap) → montón m [of carpet] → pelo;
(vb) (also: pile up)
vt → amontonar;
(fig) → acumular
vi → amontonarse;
in a pile → en un montón;
to pile into [+ car] → meterse en
pile on vt to pile it on (col) → exagerar
pile [paɪl] n (= pillar), [of books]; pile f (= heap); tas m [of carpet]; épaisseur f;
in a pile → en tas
pile on vt to pile it on (inf) → exagérer
pile up vi (= accumulate) → s'entasser, s'accumuler
pile [paɪl] n (= heap) → Haufen m (= stack); Stapel m [of carpet, velvet] → Flor m (= pillar); Pfahl m
vt (also: pile up) → (auf)stapeln;
pile [paɪl] n (= pillar), [of books] → pila (= heap); mucchio; [of carpet] → pelo
vb (also: pile up)
vt → ammucchiare
vi → ammucchiarsi;
in a pile → ammucchiato see also piles
pile on vt to pile it on (col) → esagerare, drammatizzare
n pile [pail]
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 stoh, hromada bunke; dynge der Haufen στοίβα, σωρός montón, pila virn توده؛ کپه kasa, pino pile עֲרֵימָה ढेर kup halom tumpukan hrúga pila, mucchio 積み重ね 쌓아올린 것, 더미 krūva, rietuvė, šūsnis kaudze; čupa timbunan stapel, hoop stabel, bunke, haug stos, sterta 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 moře bunke der Haufen μεγάλη ποσότητα montón, pila palju مقدار زیاد kasoittain paquet הָמוֹן כֶּסֶף ढेर, अंबार, राशि gomila nagy vagyon setumpuk ógrynni (gruzzolo), mucchio 大量 대량 krūva kaudze; žūksnis bertimbun-timbun hoop formue; haugevis med kupa 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
v
to make a pile of (something); to put (something) in a pile He piled the boxes on the table. stapel يُكَوِّم трупам naskládat dynge; stable aufhäufen στοιβάζω amontonar, apilar kuhjama انباشتن empiler לַעֲרוֹם ढेर लगाना nagomilati felhalmoz menumpuk stafla ammucchiare, ammonticchiare 積み重ねる 겹쳐 쌓다, 쌓아 올리다 sudėti, sukrauti kraut kaudzē melonggokkan opstapelen stable, dynge układać 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
n pile-up
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 hromadná srážka harmonikasammenstød die Massenkarambolage 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 (차의) 다중 충돌 susidūrimas vairāku mašīnu saskriešanās perlanggaran yg bertindan-tindih kettingbotsing kjedekollisjon karambol em cadeia choque столкновение 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 nahromadit se samle; hobe sig op aufhäufen στοιβάζω, στοιβάζομαι amontonarse, acumularse kuhjama, kuhjuma انباشتن؛ جمع کردن kasata, kerääntyä (s')entasser לְהֵיעַרֵם इकट्ठा होना, क्रम में होना या कराना nagurati,nagomilati (fel)halmoz menimbun hrúga; hlaðast upp ammassare, accumulare 積み重ねる 쌓이다, 쌓다 su(si)kaupti kraut kaudzē; uzkrāties melonggokkan (zich) opstapelen hope seg opp, stable opp gromadzić się empilhar(-se) a (se) strânge накапливать(ся); скапливаться nahromadiť (sa) nakopičiti (se) nagomilati lägga upp i en hög, samla[], hopa[] กองสุม yığ(ıl)mak, birik(tir)mek 堆積 накопичувати ڈھير لگ جانا chất đống 堆积
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