Meaning of 'pile' (Webster Dictionary)
- A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also,
the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
- A covering of hair or fur.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- 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.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a
wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of
stones; a pile of wood.
- A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- Same as Fagot, n., 2.
- 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 reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen
with piles.
- 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.
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or
overfill; to load.
Meaning of 'pile' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Example in sentence:- a batch of letters;
- a deal of trouble;
- a lot of money;
- a slew of journalists;
- a wad of money;
- he made a mint on the stock market;
- it must have cost plenty;
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
Meaning (2):
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
Example in sentence:- for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction
Meaning (3):
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
Example in sentence:- she made a bundle selling real estate;
- they sank megabucks into their new house
Meaning (4):
- arrange in stacks
Example in sentence:- heap firewood around the fireplace;
- stack your books up on the shelves
Meaning (5):
- press tightly together or cram
Example in sentence:- The crowd packed the auditorium
Meaning (6):
- place or lay as if in a pile
Example in sentence:- The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested
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