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PILES
tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings
(noun) a large number or amount; “made lots of new friends”; “she amassed stacks of newspapers”
hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, piles
(noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
piles
plural of pile
Noun
piles pl (plural only)
(informal, piles of) A large amount of.
Synonyms
• (informal: a large amount of): heaps of, loads of, mountains of, shedloads of, tons of
Verb
piles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pile
Etymology 2
Noun
piles pl (plural only)
(pathology) Haemorrhoids.
Anagrams
• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Siple, plies, pliĂ©s, slipe, spiel, spile
Proper noun
Piles
plural of Pile
Anagrams
• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Siple, plies, pliĂ©s, slipe, spiel, spile
Source: Wiktionary
Piles, n. pl. Etym: [L. pila a ball. Cf. Pill a medicine.] (Med.)
Definition: 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.] Blind piles, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
PILE
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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