pile | |
1. n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap. | |
2. n. (figuratively, informal) 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. | |
3. n. A mass formed in layers. | |
a pile of shot | |
4. n. A funeral pile; a pyre. | |
5. n. A large building, or mass of buildings. | |
6. 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. | |
7. n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of elec | |
8. n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor. | |
9. n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin. | |
10. n. (figuratively) A list or league | |
11. v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate | |
They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow. | |
12. v. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. | |
We piled the camel with our loads. | |
13. v. To add something to a great number. | |
14. v. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up. | |
15. v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other. | |
16. n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow. | |
17. n. The head of an arrow or spear. | |
18. n. 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. | |
19. n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. | |
20. v. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. | |
21. n. (usually in plural) A hemorrhoid. | |
22. n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly , now treated as a collective singular.) | |
23. n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth. | |