Meaning of pile | Babel Free

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1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap
2. A surname
3. A dart; an arrow.
   obsolete
4. A surname.
5. A hemorrhoid.
   plural-normally
6. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
   countable, uncountable
7. A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
   historical
8. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
9. A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process
10. The head of an arrow or spear.
11. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
    countable, uncountable
12. A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
    historical
13. A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
    informal
14. hemorrhoid.
15. A mass formed in layers
16. 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.
17. 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 สุมไ...
18. A mass formed in layers.
19. A funeral pile; a pyre
20. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
21. 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 tamponame...
    usually
22. A funeral pile; a pyre.
23. A large amount of money
24. 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 melonggok...
25. A large amount of money.
    slang
26. 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 ...
    etc
27. A large building, or mass of buildings.
28. 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 pålkr...
29. 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.
30. 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...
    eg
31. 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.
32. A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
33. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap.
34. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
35. Informal a. A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of work to do.
    Informal
36. The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
    obsolete
37. A nuclear reactor.
38. A list or league

Equivalents

Examples

“I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.”

“When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile”

“a pile of shot”

“Jove with a Nod, comply'd with her Deſire; / Around the Body flam'd the Funeral Fire; / The Pile decreas'd that lately ſeem'd ſo high, / And Sheets of Smoak roll'd upward to the Sky: [...]”

“He made a pile from that invention of his.”

“When they are at work they live most frugally, denying themselves every comfort and luxury till they have made a "pile."”

“The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture; […]”

“The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.”

“It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor[…]”

“He [Winston Churchill] was born at Blenheim Palace, that Oxfordshire pile built for his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who also knew a thing or two about warfare.”

“The word "pile" is used specifically to mean the column of superposed electrodes, such as that of Volta or Zamboni.”

“And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.”

“Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.”

“All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.”

“Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.”

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