to pile

Definition of to pile in English English dictionary: One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost; A funeral pile; a pyre; A hemorrhoid; 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; To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles; A mass of things heaped together; a heap
a pile of wood.; The reverse (or tails) of a coin; 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; Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.); To create a hold-up; 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.; 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; The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth
Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. — William Cowper.; A dart; an arrow; {n} a heap, edifice, piece of wood, nap, figure; {v} to heap or lay upon, heap, raise up; press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"; a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy; {f} place one on top of other, heap; accumulate, gather, collect; 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; (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"; 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"; battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta; The head of an arrow or spear; 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; A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot; To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load; fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs); – A wood, metal or concrete pole driven into the sea floor, used to support a dock or pier; A large building, or mass of buildings; The visible surface of carpet, consisting of yarn tufts in loop and/or cut configuration Sometimes called the face or nap; Describes the surface of some carpets and fabrics, produced by an extra set of looped filling yarns which are cut and sheared; Nap of the rug The tufts remaining after the knotted yarn is clipped; 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; place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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; ‑ Soft, thick textured fabrics such as terry, corduroy and velvet, resulting from changing tension in the warp to create loops; The reverse (or tails) of a coin. (Obs); A fabric with a surface of upright yarns, cut or looped, as corduroy, or terry towels; A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet; A structure supported on piled foundations; A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood; 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"; A rod or shaft-like linear member driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure; Same as Fagot, n; 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; 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; {i} heap, mound; wealth, fortune; group of buildings; dike, levee; A heavy timber, or pillar of metal or concrete, forced into the earth or cast in place to form a foundation member; If something is piled with things, it is covered or filled with piles of things. Tables were piled high with local produce; A covering of hair or fur; 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; place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested; If you talk about a pile of something or piles of something, you mean a large amount of it. a whole pile of disasters; 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; Piles are painful swellings that can appear in the veins inside a person's anus; 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; 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; arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"; A nuclear reactor Called a pile because the earliest reactors were "piles" of graphite blocks and uranium slugs; A hemorrhoid (usually it is in plural); The visible surface of carpet consisting of yarn tufts in loop and/or cut configuration Sometimes called "face" or "nap"; To create a hold up; 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; The thick layer of setae (hairs) covering Bombus