pile
Speech parts
1. pile - Noun
2. pile - Verb
3. Pile - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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.
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
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.
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 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.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.
You don't spin, you don't weave, or wind, so where did you get this pile of money?
Not all the spikes of wheat go on the wheat pile.