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pile ¹  (pl)

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.

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 Verb:

pile up

1. To accumulate.

2. Informal To undergo a serious vehicular collision.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pla, pillar.]

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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.

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[Middle English, from Old English pl, shaft, stake, from Latin plum, spear, pestle.]

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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]

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pile ²

Noun

a long heavy beam driven into the ground as a foundation for a structure [Latin pilum]

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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]

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pile - a collection of objects laid on top of each other cumulation, heap, cumulus, agglomerate, mound aggregation, 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 muckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden - a heap of dung or refuse 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" big bucks, big money, megabucks, bundle 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) down 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 galvanic pile, voltaic pile electric 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 structure piling, spile, stilt pillar, 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" nap thread, yarn - a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving
	8.	pile - a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor 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" heap, stack 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" heap up, stack up, pile up - arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
	2.	pile - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" jam, mob, throng, pack 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"

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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)

verb 5. load, stuff, pack, stack, charge, heap, cram, lade

verb 6. crowd, pack, charge, rush, climb, flood, stream, crush, squeeze, jam, flock, shove

pile something up

1. gather (up), collect, assemble, stack (up), mass, heap (up), load up

2. collect, accumulate, gather in, pull in, amass, hoard, stack up, store up, heap up

pile up accumulate, collect, gather (up), build up, amass

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pile ²

noun foundation, support, post, column, piling, beam, upright, pier, pillar

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pile ³

noun nap, fibre, down, hair, surface, fur, plush, shag, filament

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

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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

vt (= put in heap) → empiler, entasser (= accumulate); accumuler

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pile [paɪl] n (= heap) → Haufen m (= stack); Stapel m [of carpet, velvet] → Flor m (= pillar); Pfahl m

vt (also: pile up) → (auf)stapeln;

in a pile → in einem Haufen;

to pile into/out of [+ vehicle] → sich drängen in +acc/aus

pile on pile vt to pile it on (inf) → zu dick auftragen

pile up pile vi → sich stapeln

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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