PILE

pile, nap

(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”

pile, spile, piling, stilt

(noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

down, pile

(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)

pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus

(noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other

pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money

(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”

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) (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”

pile

(verb) place or lay as if in a pile; “The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested”

stack, pile, heap

(verb) arrange in stacks; “heap firewood around the fireplace”; “stack your books up on the shelves”

throng, mob, pack, pile, jam

(verb) press tightly together or cram; “The crowd packed the auditorium”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

pile (plural piles)

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

(figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

A mass formed in layers.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

A large building, or mass of buildings.

A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

(figuratively) A list or league

Synonyms

• See also lot

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

(transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

(transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

(transitive) To add something to a great number.

(transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

(transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

Synonyms

• (lay or throw into a pile): heap, pile up; see also pile up

Etymology 2

Noun

pile (plural piles)

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

The head of an arrow or spear.

A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc, driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

(transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

Etymology 3

Noun

pile (plural piles)

(usually, in the plural) A hemorrhoid.

Etymology 4

Noun

pile (countable and uncountable, plural piles)

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

(transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

Anagrams

• Lipe, Peil, Piel, plie, plié

Proper noun

Pile (plural Piles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pile is the 19296^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1403 individuals. Pile is most common among White (78.9%) and Black/African American (13.97%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Lipe, Peil, Piel, plie, plié

Source: Wiktionary

Pile, n. Etym: [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. Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. Cowper.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A covering of hair or fur.

Pile, n. Etym: [L. pilum javelin. See Pile a stake.]

Definition: The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] Chapman.

Pile, n. Etym: [AS. pil 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.

Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.

2. Etym: [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.)

Definition: One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. 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.

Pile, v. t.

Definition: To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.

Pile, n. Etym: [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.

2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

3. A funeral pile; a pyre. Dryden.

4. A large building, or mass of buildings. The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. Dryden.

5. (Iron Manuf.)

Definition: Same as Fagot, n., 2.

6. (Elec.)

Definition: 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.

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.

7. Etym: [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.]

Definition: The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. Cross and pile. See under Cross.

– Dry pile. See under Dry.

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. The labor of an age in piled stones. Milton.

2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. To pile arms or muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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