Pile
[paɪl]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.
(noun.) a collection of objects laid on top of each other.
(noun.) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); 'she made a bundle selling real estate'; 'they sank megabucks into their new house'.
(verb.) place or lay as if in a pile; 'The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested'.
Edited by Griffith--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
(n.) A covering of hair or fur.
(n.) The head of an arrow or spear.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
(v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
(n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
(n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
(n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.
(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.
(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
Checked by Emil
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Heap, accumulation, mass, collection.[2]. Building, structure, edifice, fabric, erection.[3]. Large stake.[4]. Filament, thread, fibre, staple.
v. a. Accumulate, amass, heap, collect or gather into a heap.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Heap, accumulate, gather, store, stuck, amass, collect
ANT:Demolish, dissipate, squander, scatter, separate, disperse, deal, distribute
Editor: Sharon
Definition
n. hair fur: the nap on cloth esp. if regular and closely set.—v.t. to furnish with pile to make shaggy.—adj. Pile′-worn worn threadbare.
n. a roundish mass: a heap of separate objects: combustibles esp. for burning dead bodies: a large building: a heap of shot or shell: (elect.) a form of battery consisting of a number of dissimilar metal plates laid in pairs one above another with an acid solution between them: (slang) a large amount of money: a fortune.—v.t. to lay in a pile or heap: to collect in a mass: to heap up: to fill above the brim.—n. Pī′ler one who forms into a heap.—Pile arms to place three muskets with fixed bayonets so that the butts remain firm the muzzles close together pointing obliquely—also Stack arms.
n. a pillar: a large stake driven into the earth to support foundations: a pyramidal figure in a heraldic bearing.—v.t. to drive piles into.—ns. Pile′-driv′er Pile′-en′gine an engine for driving down piles; Pile′-dwell′ing a dwelling built on piles a lake-dwelling; Pile′work work or foundations made of piles; Pile′-worm a worm found eating into the timber of piles and ships: the teredo.
Checker: Williams
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a wood-pile, denotes unsatisfactory business and misunderstandings in love.
Checker: Scott
Examples
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- As he took each article from the walls, he placed it in a pile in the center of the room. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Mr. Nasmyth not only invented the steam hammer, but the steam pile driver as well. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There, said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the top of the pile. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The paper, cut into the desired form by a separate machine, was piled up on one side of the envelope folder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Here he kept a great mass of wood, high piled, ready to be ignited as a signal should a steamer or a sail top the far horizon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- During the Middle Ages he piled on more and more, until at last one of the knights could hardly walk, and it took a strong horse to carry him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was piled with household furniture. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These piles are perhaps three or four feet high, and are so neat and true that they appear to have been the work of a master mason. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is about five hundred years old, I believe, and stands on twelve hundred thousand piles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Those big piles of sawdust. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The machine did the work of the original man with the sickle or scythe and that of the cradler, and having cut the grain left it in loose piles on the ground. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was still piling its frothy hills high in air outside, as we could plainly see with the glasses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Northern people were tired of the war, they were tired of piling up a debt which would be a further mortgage upon their homes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Meg was already covering the buckwheats, and piling the bread into one big plate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To-day charcoal is made commercially by piling wood on steel cars and then pushing the cars into strong walled chambers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the atmosphere had cleared sufficiently to see, he went around and pulled every table away from the wall, piling them on top of the stove in the middle of the room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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