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ALL meanings of pile

pile
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  • noun pile heap 1
  • noun pile large amount 1
  • noun pile money: large amount 1
  • noun pile carpet thickness 1
  • noun plural pile haemorrhoids 1
  • transitive verb pile make into a pile, stack 1
  • 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
  • idioms pile in pile, Heraldry. (of a number of charges) arranged in the manner of a pile. 1
  • noun Definition of pile in Technology 1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. 2.   (language, music)   ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979]. 1
  • countable noun pile A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides. 0
  • countable noun 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. 0
  • verb pile If you pile things somewhere, you put them there so that they form a pile. 0
  • verb pile If something is piled with things, it is covered or filled with piles of things. 0
  • quantifier pile If you talk about a pile of something or piles of something, you mean a large amount of it. 0
  • verb 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. 0
  • countable noun pile You can refer to a large impressive building as a pile, especially when it is the home of a rich important person. 0
  • countable noun 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. 0
  • noun plural pile Piles are painful swellings that can appear in the veins inside a person's anus. 0
  • singular noun 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. 0
  • noun pile a collection of objects laid on top of one another or of other material stacked vertically; heap; mound 0
  • noun pile a large amount of money (esp in the phrase make a pile) 0
  • noun pile a large amount 0
  • noun pile a large building or group of buildings 0
  • noun pile a structure of uranium and a moderator used for producing atomic energy; nuclear reactor 0
  • noun pile an arrangement of wrought-iron bars that are to be heated and worked into a single bar 0
  • noun pile the point of an arrow 0
  • verb pile to collect or be collected into or as if into a pile 0
  • verb pile to move in a group, esp in a hurried or disorganized manner 0
  • noun pile a long column of timber, concrete, or steel that is driven into the ground to provide a foundation for a vertical load (a bearing pile) or a group of such columns to resist a horizontal load from earth or water pressure (a sheet pile) 0
  • noun pile an ordinary shaped like a wedge, usually displayed point-downwards 0
  • verb pile to drive (piles) into the ground 0
  • verb pile to provide or support (a structure) with piles 0
  • noun pile the yarns in a fabric that stand up or out from the weave, as in carpeting, velvet, flannel, etc 0
  • noun pile one of these yarns 0
  • noun pile soft fine hair, fur, wool, etc 0
  • noun pile a mass of things heaped together; heap 0
  • noun pile a heap of wood or other combustible material on which a corpse or sacrifice is burned 0
  • noun pile a large amount or number 0
  • noun pile a lot of money; fortune 0
  • noun pile a voltaic pile or any other similar device that produces an electric current; battery 0
  • noun pile nuclear reactor 0
  • verb transitive pile to put or set in a pile; heap up 0
  • verb transitive pile to cover with a pile; load 0
  • verb transitive pile to accumulate 0
  • verb transitive pile to crash, wreck, etc. 0
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