a pile

Definition of a pile in English English dictionary
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: {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 head of an arrow or spear
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: 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
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: A large building, or mass of buildings
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: 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: 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: To add something to a great number
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