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- [pahyl]
- /paɪl/
- /paɪl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pahyl]
- /paɪl/
Definitions of pile word
- noun pile the lower of two dies for coining by hand. 1
- verb with object pile to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles. 1
- verb with object pile to drive piles into. 1
- verb without object pile to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up). 1
- verb without object pile Informal. to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster: to pile off a train. 1
- verb without object pile to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up): The snow is piling up on the roofs. 1
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Origin of pile
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin pīla pillar, mole of stone
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Pile
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pile popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pile usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pile
verb pile
- accumulate — When you accumulate things or when they accumulate, they collect or are gathered over a period of time.
- add up — If facts or events do not add up, they make you confused about a situation because they do not seem to be consistent. If something that someone has said or done adds up, it is reasonable and sensible.
- agglomerated — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- aggregate — An aggregate amount or score is made up of several smaller amounts or scores added together.
- amass — If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it.
noun pile
- accumulation — An accumulation of something is a large number of things which have been collected together or acquired over a period of time.
- agglomerate — to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect
- agglomeration — An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement.
- all kinds of — You can use all kinds of to emphasize that there are a great number and variety of particular things or people.
- amount — The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
adj pile
- countless — Countless means very many.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- flossy — made of or resembling floss; downy.
- fluffy — of, resembling, or covered with fluff.
- heaper — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
adjective pile
- zillion — an extremely large, indeterminate number.
Antonyms for pile
verb pile
- bombinate — to make a buzzing noise
- cannonading — a continued discharge of cannon, especially during an attack.
- eddied — a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- eddying — a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- go around — an act or instance of going around something, as a circle, course, or traffic pattern, and returning to the starting point.
noun pile
- ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
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