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See pīle

English

Most definitions taken from the public domain 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged dictionary

Pronunciation


Noun

pile

  1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
  2. :Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. —Cowper
  3. A covering of hair or fur.
  4. A large stake, or piece of timber, steel section pointed and driven into the earth or drilled and cast reinforced concrete, 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.
  5. The head of an arrow or spear.
  6. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  7. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
  8. * 1889, Haggard, Cleopatra:
  9. *: I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me. 1
  10. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
  11. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  12. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. The reverse (or tails) of a coin. (Obs)
  16. A hemorrhoid (usually it is in plural)


Translations

Verb

  1. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  2. 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.
  3. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  4. To add something to a great number.
  5. (of vehicles) To create a hold up.
  6. A structure supported on piled foundations

Related terms


Category:English words with multiple etymologies

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Bosnian

Noun

  1. chick


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Croatian

Noun

  1. chick


Declension

{{hr-decl-noun |pile|pilad |pileta|piladi |piletu|piladi |pile|pilad |pile|piladi |piletu|piladi |piletom|pilađu / piladi }}

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French

Etymology

Latin pila

Pronunciation


Noun

pile

  1. heap
  2. pillar
  3. battery
  4. tail of a coin


Category:French nouns

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Serbian

Noun

{{sr-noun|g=n|pl=pilad|cyr=пиле}}

  1. chick


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilus hair. Cf. Peruke.]
1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like;
also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and
velvet.
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Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pile \Pile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Piling.]
1. 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. "Hills piled on hills."
--Dryden. "Life piled on life." --Tennyson.
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The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton.
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2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or
overfill; to load.
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To pile arms To pile muskets (Mil.), to place three guns
together so that they may stand upright, supporting each
other; to stack arms.
[1913 Webster] Pileate
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pile \Pile\, v. t.
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with
piles.
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To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See
Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilum javelin. See Pile a stake.]
The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[imac]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin;
but cf. also L. pila pillar.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.
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2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or
subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed
palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on
piles.

Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of
piles.

Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving
down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with
suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or
steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy
mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.

Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake.

Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in
sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling.

Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic.

Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by
rotation aided by pressure.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pile \Pile\, n. [F. pile, L. pila a pillar, a pier or mole of
stone. Cf. Pillar.]
1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of
stones; a pile of wood.
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2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
[1913 Webster]

3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden.
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4. A large building, or mass of buildings.
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The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
--Dryden.
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5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
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6. (Elec.) 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.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of
apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity,
or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an
apparatus for generating a current of electricity by
the action of heat, usually called a thermopile.
[1913 Webster]

7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The
reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
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Cross and pile. See under Cross.

Dry pile. See under Dry.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. Pill a medicine.]
(Med.)
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and
lower part of the rectum which are technically called
hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids.

Note: [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
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Blind piles, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
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WordNet pile
n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: heap,
mound, cumulus]
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, {good
deal}, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, {quite
a little}, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, {tidy
sum}, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
3: a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she
made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks
into their new house" [syn: bundle, big bucks, megabucks,
big money]
4: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or
deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain
dogs) [syn: down]
5: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the
earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: {voltaic
pile}, galvanic pile]
6: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into
the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: spile,
piling, stilt]
7: 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" [syn: nap]
8: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to
generate energy [syn: atomic pile, atomic reactor, {chain
reactor}]
v 1: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace";
"stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: stack, heap]
2: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, jam]
3: place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the
students until the parents protested"
Moby Dictionary
abscess , abundance , accumulate , accumulation , agglomeration ,
aggregate , aggregation , amass , amassment , angina , angina pectoris ,
anthill , aortic insufficiency , aortic stenosis , apoplectic stroke ,
architecture , arrhythmia , arteriosclerosis , assault , assemblage ,
assemble , assortment , atherosclerosis , atomic pile ,
atrial fibrillation , attack , auricular fibrillation , back , backlog ,
bag , bags , baluster , balustrade , banister , bank , bank up , bankroll ,
barrel , base , batch , bed sore , beriberi heart , bestraddle ,
bestride , blade , blain , bleb , blister , board , boil , bomb , boodle ,
bottle , box , bract , bracteole , bractlet , breeder reactor , bricks ,
bristle , bristles , brush , bubo , budget , building , bulla , bundle ,
bunion , burden , can , canker , canker sore , capillament , carbuncle ,
cardiac arrest , cardiac insufficiency , cardiac shock ,
cardiac stenosis , cardiac thrombosis , carditis , caryatid ,
chain reactor , chain-reacting pile , chancre , chancroid , charge ,
chilblain , choke , cilium , climb on , coat , cock , cold sore , collect ,
collection , colonnade , column , commissariat , commissary ,
concentration , congenital heart disease , congeries , conglomeration ,
considerable , construct , construction , cor biloculare , cor juvenum ,
cor triatriatum , cornucopia , coronary , coronary insufficiency ,
coronary thrombosis , cotyledon , crate , crowd in , cumulate ,
cumulation , dado , deal , deposit , diastolic hypertension , die , down ,
drift , dump , dune , edifice , eiderdown , embankment , encased heart ,
endocarditis , enter , erection , eschar , establishment , exaggerate ,
exit , extrasystole , fabric , fast pile , fatty heart , feel , felon ,
fester , festering , fever blister , fibroid heart , fill , finish ,
fistula , flag , flask-shaped heart , fleece , floral leaf , floss ,
flue , fluff , foliole , footstalk , fortune , freight , frond ,
frosted heart , fur , furnace , furuncle , furunculus , fuzz , gathering ,
get in , get into , get on , glomeration , glume , go aboard ,
go on board , gobs , good deal , good sum , grain , granular texture ,
great deal , gumboil , hair , hairy heart , haycock , haymow , hayrick ,
haystack , heap , heap up , heaps , heaps of gold , heart attack ,
heart block , heart condition , heart disease , heart failure ,
hemorrhoids , heterogeneous reactor , high blood pressure , hill ,
hoard , holdings , homogeneous reactor , hop in , horsehair , house ,
hypertension , hypertensive heart disease , intermediate pile ,
inventory , involucre , involucrum , ischemic heart disease , jack ,
jam in , jumble , jump in , jump on , kibe , knub , lade , lamina , larder ,
large sum , lashings , lattice , leaf , leaflet , leave , leg , lemma ,
lesion , ligule , lint , load , loads , loot , lot , lots , lump , mane ,
mass , material , materials , materiel , mess , millions , mint ,
mint of money , mitral insufficiency , mitral stenosis , molehill ,
money , mound , mount , mountain , mow , much , munitions ,
myocardial infarction , myocardial insufficiency , myocarditis ,
myovascular insufficiency , nap , needle , neutron factory ,
newel-post , nub , nuclear furnace , oceans , oodles , overwhelm ,
ox heart , pack , pack away , pack in , packaged house , packet , pale ,
palisade , palpitation , papula , papule , paralytic stroke ,
paronychia , paroxysmal tachycardia , parulis , peck , pedestal ,
pedicel , peduncle , peg , pelt , pericarditis , petal , petechia ,
picket , pier , pilaster , pile in , pile it on , pile out , pile up ,
piles , piling , pillar , pimple , pine needle , pit , plenitude , plenty ,
plethora , plinth , plush , plutonium reactor , pock , pocket , pole ,
polyp , post , pot , potful , power of money , power reactor ,
power-breeder reactor , prefab , prefabrication , premature beat ,
pretty penny , protuberance , provisionment , provisions ,
pseudoaortic insufficiency , pubescence , pubic hair ,
pulmonary insufficiency , pulmonary stenosis , pustule , pyramid ,
pyre , quantity , queen-post , quite a little , radioactive waste ,
raft , rafts , rations , reactor , reactor pile , repertoire , repertory ,
rheumatic heart disease , rick , rising , rods , roll , round heart ,
ruck , sack , scab , scads , sclerosis , seed leaf , sepal , setula ,
shaft , shag , shank , ship , shock , sight , skyscraper , slew , slews ,
slow pile , snowdrift , socle , soft chancre , sore , spate , spathe ,
spear , spile , spire , stack , stack up , stacks , staff , stake , stalk ,
stanchion , stand , standard , stellarator , stem , stigma , stipula ,
stipule , stock , stock-in-trade , stockpile , stony heart , store ,
stores , stow , stroke , structure , sty , subbase , superabundance ,
superstructure , supplies , supply , supply on hand , suppuration ,
surbase , surface , surface texture , swansdown , swelling ,
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