pile

A2
Pronunciation
/paɪl/
Noun
18 definition(s)
1 Definition

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

2 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • 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
3 Definition

A mass formed in layers.

Example Sentences
  • a pile of shot
4 Definition

A funeral pile; a pyre.

5 Definition

A large amount of money.

Example Sentences
  • He made a pile from that invention of his.
6 Definition

A large building, or mass of buildings.

7 Definition

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.

8 Definition

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.

9 Definition

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

10 Definition

The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

11 Definition

A list or league

12 Definition

A dart; an arrow.

13 Definition

The head of an arrow or spear.

14 Definition

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.

15 Definition

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

16 Definition

(usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.

17 Definition

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

18 Definition

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

Verb
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

(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

Example Sentences
  • They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
2 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • We piled the camel with our loads.
3 Definition

To add something to a great number.

4 Definition

(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

5 Definition

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

6 Definition

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

7 Definition

To give a pile to; to make shaggy.