Definition von pi̇le im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- pile
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost
- pile
- A funeral pile; a pyre
- pile
- A hemorrhoid
- pile
- 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
- pile
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles
- pile
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap
a pile of wood.
- pile
- The reverse (or tails) of a coin
- pile
- 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
- pile
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- pile
- To create a hold-up
- pile
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process
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.
- pile
- 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
- pile
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth
Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. — William Cowper.
- pile
- A dart; an arrow
- pile
- A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot
- pile
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load
We piled the camel with our loads.
- pile
- The head of an arrow or spear
- pile
- 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
- pile
- A large building, or mass of buildings
- pile
- To add something to a great number
- pile
- {n} a heap, edifice, piece of wood, nap, figure
- pile
- {v} to heap or lay upon, heap, raise up
- pile
- press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
- pile
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- pile
- {f} place one on top of other, heap; accumulate, gather, collect
- pile
- If you pile things somewhere, you put them there so that they form a pile. He was piling clothes into the suitcase A few newspapers and magazines were piled on a table
- 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"; "it must have cost plenty"
- pile
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure a collection of objects laid on top of each other a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
- pile
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- pile
- The visible wear surface of carpet, consisting of yarn tufts in loop and/or cur configuration Sometimes called the face or nap of the carpet
- 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)
- pile
- A wood, metal or concrete pole driven into the sea floor, used to support a dock or pier
- pile
- The visible surface of carpet, consisting of yarn tufts in loop and/or cut configuration Sometimes called the face or nap
- pile
- Describes the surface of some carpets and fabrics, produced by an extra set of looped filling yarns which are cut and sheared
- pile
- Nap of the rug The tufts remaining after the knotted yarn is clipped
- pile
- 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
- pile
- place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
- pile
- A long, thin element, such as a steel pipe or a w-shape, which is driven into to ground and used in combination with other piles as a building foundation
- pile
- A pile of cards Piles may be squared, so that only the topmost card can be seen, or they may be spread out in a fan Piles can be empty, if there are no cards in them Most solitaire games involve moving cards among various piles, with the goal of eventually getting them all into a particular pile or group of piles Sometimes a pile is referred to by number, for example "In pile 3, " This usually refers to the tableau piles, and they are numbered left to right, top to bottom, so that "pile 3" would be the third from the left See also foundation, tableau, discard, stock
- pile
- 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
- pile
- Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood. settlements of wooden houses, set on piles along the shore
- pile
- The raised loops or tufts that form all or a portion of the surface of fabric Pile fabrics may be warp pile, filling pile, or knotted pile The pile effect may be cut, uncut, looped or curled
- pile
- A large stake, or piece of timber, steel section pointed and driven into the earth or drilled and cast reinforced concrete, 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
- pile
- ‑ Soft, thick textured fabrics such as terry, corduroy and velvet, resulting from changing tension in the warp to create loops
- pile
- The reverse (or tails) of a coin. (Obs)
- pile
- A fabric with a surface of upright yarns, cut or looped, as corduroy, or terry towels
- pile
- A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet
- pile
- A structure supported on piled foundations
- pile
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood
- 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"
- pile
- A rod or shaft-like linear member driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure
- pile
- Same as Fagot, n
- pile
- You can refer to a large impressive building as a pile, especially when it is the home of a rich important person. some stately pile in the country
- pile
- {i} heap, mound; wealth, fortune; group of buildings; dike, levee
- pile
- A heavy timber, or pillar of metal or concrete, forced into the earth or cast in place to form a foundation member
- pile
- If something is piled with things, it is covered or filled with piles of things. Tables were piled high with local produce
- pile
- A covering of hair or fur
- pile
- A surface effect on fabric that has been formed by tufts or loops of fibers that stand up from the main body of the cloth such as velvet
- pile
- place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested
- pile
- If you talk about a pile of something or piles of something, you mean a large amount of it. a whole pile of disasters
- pile
- In air drying, stacking lumber layer by layer, separated by stickers or self-stickering, on a supporting foundation (hand stacking) or place stickered unit packages by lift truck or crane, one above the other on a foundation and separated by bolsters
- pile
- Piles are painful swellings that can appear in the veins inside a person's anus
- pile
- A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides. a pile of sand The leaves had been swept into huge piles. = heap, mound
- pile
- The visible surface of a carpet, consisting of yarn or fiber tufts in loops that can be either cut or uncut Also known as the "face" or "nap" of a carpet
- pile
- arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
- pile
- A nuclear reactor Called a pile because the earliest reactors were "piles" of graphite blocks and uranium slugs
- pile
- A hemorrhoid (usually it is in plural)
- pile
- The visible surface of carpet consisting of yarn tufts in loop and/or cut configuration Sometimes called "face" or "nap"
- pile
- To create a hold up
- pile
- 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
- pile
- The thick layer of setae (hairs) covering Bombus
- pile
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- pile
- 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
- pile
- The surface of the rug, it is sometimes called the "nap" or "face "
- pile
- a shaft-like linear member which carries loads through weak layers of soil to those which are capable of supporting such loads
- pile
- The reverse of a coin
- 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"
- pile
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- pile
- A long substantial pole of wood, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or sea bed to serve as a support or protection
- pile
- A long slender piece of material driven into the ground to as a foundation
- pile
- The visible surface of a carpet
- pile
- If a group of people pile into or out of a vehicle, they all get into it or out of it in a disorganized way. They all piled into Jerrold's car A fleet of police cars suddenly arrived. Dozens of officers piled out
- pile
- Someone who is at the bottom of the pile is low down in society or low down in an organization. Someone who is at the top of the pile is high up in society or high up in an organization. In building construction, a postlike foundation member used from prehistoric times. Piles transfer building loads down to a suitable bearing stratum when the soil mass immediately below a construction is unsuitable for the direct bearing of footings (see foundation). Piles support loads either by bearing directly on rock or suitable soil or by developing friction along their very ample length. In modern civil engineering, piles of timber, steel, or concrete are driven into the ground to support a structure; bridge piers and building foundations may be supported on groups of piles
- pile
- A pile of things is a quantity of things that have been put neatly somewhere so that each thing is on top of the one below. a pile of boxes The clothes were folded in a neat pile
- pile
- The pile of a carpet or of a fabric such as velvet is its soft surface. It consists of a lot of little threads standing on end. the carpet's thick pile
- pile driver
- forceful
- pile driver
- A machine for forcing a pile, a long beam, into the ground as part of the construction of a foundation; usually by raising a weight and then dropping it on the beam
- pile driver
- A person who hits or attacks forcefully or powerfully
She sure is a pile driver.
- pile drivers
- plural form of pile driver
- pile of shit
- Something that is not true
They said he survived the fall? What a pile of shit!.
- pile on the pounds
- to gain weight quickly
- pile up
- To collect or accumulate, as a backlog
The requests piled up while she was away.
- pile up
- To form a pile, stack, or heap
And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
- pile-up
- A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles
Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.
- pile cap
- the uppermost portion of a pile which acts to secure the piles in position and provides a bridge seat to receive and distribute superstructure loads
- pile cap
- a concrete footing for a pier or an abutment supported on piles or the concrete below the pile tops when footing reinforcing steel is placed completely above the piles See also cap and pier cap
- pile cap
- The topmost portion of a pier On rigid frame piers, the term applies to the beam across the column tops
- pile driver
- a machine that drives piling into the ground
- pile it on
- exaggerate
- pile up
- arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room
- pile up
- If you pile up work, problems, or losses or if they pile up, you get more and more of them. Problems were piling up at work He piled up huge debts
- pile up
- If you pile up a quantity of things or if they pile up, they gradually form a pile. Bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt Mail was still piling up at the office
- pile up
- collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
- pile up
- arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
- pile up
- get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
- pile up
- collect, accumulate; be heaped up
- pile-up
- pile-up pile-ups in AM, use pileup A pile-up is a road accident in which a lot of vehicles crash into each other. a 54-car pile-up. a traffic accident involving many vehicles
- Bunsen pile
- An early electrical battery using multiple cells of zinc and graphite in dilute chromic acid
- atomic pile
- an early nuclear reactor fuelled by uranium and moderated with graphite
- deep pile carpet
- A carpet having relatively long fibres; typically used in bedrooms or rooms that get light wear
- piled
- Simple past tense and past participle of pile
- piles
- Haemorrhoids
Many women get piles when pregnant.
- piles
- plural form of pile
Piles were sunk into the river to support the bridge.
- piling
- Present participle of pile
- screw pile
- A steel pile having a wide helical blade attached at the foot; it is twisted into soft ground in order to provide a large bearing area
- slash pile
- Accumulated debris from cutting brush or trimming trees
- muck pile
- (Mining) Muck that has been placed in a spoil area
- muck pile
- (Construction) The broken material at the face of a tunnel being bored, after being crushed by blasting
- rubble pile
- (Astronomi) In astronomy, rubble pile is the informal name for an asteroid that is not a monolith, consisting instead of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity. Rubble piles have low density because there are large cavities between the various 'chunks' that comprise them
- atomic pile
- An early type of nuclear reactor whose core consisted of layers of graphite block interspersed with uranium, designed to create a sustained fission reaction
- atomic pile
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- atomic pile
- nuclear reactor, device which produces atomic energy
- dog pile
- heap of dog feces, pile of dog excrement
- loop pile
- A carpet surface composed of uncut loops As opposed to cut pile
- loop pile
- The fiber in the carpet is looped and uncut Can be either level loop or multi-level loop
- loop pile
- Carpet style having a pile surface consisting of uncut loops May be woven or tufted Also called "round wire" in woven carpet terminology
- loop pile
- - Carpet style having a pile surface consisting of uncut loops May be woven or tufted Also called "round wire" in woven carpet terminology
- make one's pile
- accumulate money, amass a fortune
- piled
- Having a pile or nap
- piled
- Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron
- piled
- past of pile
- piled
- thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books"; "heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high"
- piled
- Having a pile or point; pointed
- piles
- pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter
- piles
- debility of the bowels due to ascarides (small white thread worms)
- piles
- In the course of office work, it is common for people to organize documents in terms of piles, such as an in-box, out-box, a pile of urgent items, and a pile of less urgent items From a perspective of sensemaking, piles are an external representation with several interesting properties At least in the physical world, documents can be in at most one pile at a time -- so that piles represent disjoint categories Piles have a complete ordering The top item of a pile is more visible than lower ones Sometimes the edges of items in a pile can be seen Items in a pile can be sorted according to some criterion Virtual piles can also be created as a user interface Virtual piles can be useful for putting documents or other things in disjoint categories (They can also be extended beyond the properties of physical piles so that an object can be in more than one pile at a time, or can have corresponding "ghost" objects to represent it in more than one pile )
- piles
- The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids
- piles
- A support made of wood, concrete or other material that is driven or embedded into the ground Examples include wood pilings used with elevated, coastal homes
- piles
- Term used in structural engineering for the joint plates
- piles
- Plural of pile
- piles
- A large amount of
- piles
- a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed a mountain of newspapers"
- piles
- [The singular pile is sometimes used
- piling
- general term applied to groupings of piles in a construction see PILE, SHEET PILES
- piling
- The build up or caking of ink on rollers, plate or blanket or the paper build up on the blanket of an offset printing press
- piling
- In printing, the building up or caking of ink on rollers, plates or blankets; will not transfer readily Also, the accumulation of paper coating on the blanket of an offset press
- piling
- In printing, the build up or cracking of ink on rollers, plate or blanket; will not transfer readily Also the accumulation of paper coating on the blanket of an offset press
- piling
- A heavy beam driven into the ground used to support a building
- piling
- a number of piles used together to form a construction (such as a crib, cofferdam, or bulkhead)
- piling
- A structural support comprised of a length of wood, steel, or other construction material
- piling
- {i} body of buildings
- piling
- Pushing logging debris into piles
- piling
- Round timbers to be driven into the ground to support other structures
- piling
- Pilings are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Pilings are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood. bridges set on stone pilings. = pile
- piling
- The building up or caking of ink on rollers, plates or blankets which will not transfer readily
- piling
- A post driven into the ground below the waterline to support a pier, dock, etc
- piling
- The act of heaping up
- piling
- A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge
- piling
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- piling
- (1) In printing, the building up or caking of ink pigment on rollers, plate or blanket; will not transfer readily (2) The accumulation of paper coating on the blanket of an offset press to top
- piling
- The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc
- sheet pile
- a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage
- voltaic pile
- A source of electricity consisting of a number of alternating disks of two different metals separated by acid-moistened pads, forming primary cells connected in series
- voltaic pile
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta