Pile

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

- Cowper.

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.

(Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

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
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.

v. t.

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

To sheet-pile
to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.

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.

The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.

- Dryden.

(Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.

(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.

The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

Cross and pile
See under Cross.

Dry pile
See under Dry.

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.

[imp. & p. p. Piled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Piling.]

The labor of an age in piled stones.

- Milton.

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

To pile arms
(Mil.) to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms.

Noun	1.	pile - a collection of objects laid on top of each other Synonyms: heap, cumulus, mound
	2.	pile - (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" Synonyms: good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew, stack, raft, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight
	3.	pile - a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, bundle
	4.	pile - fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) Synonyms: down
	5.	pile - battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile
	6.	pile - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt
	7.	pile - 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" Synonyms: nap
	8.	pile - a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy Synonyms: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor
Verb	1.	pile - arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" Synonyms: heap, stack
	2.	pile - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" Synonyms: jam, mob, throng, pack
	3.	pile - place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

1.		PILE - Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. ["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282].
2.	(language, music)	PILE - ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].

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