n. | 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. | (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur. |
| 1. | The head of an arrow or spear. |
| 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. |
| 2. | (Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. |
v. t. | 1. | To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. |
n. | 1. | A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. |
| 2. | A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. |
| 3. | A funeral pile; a pyre. |
| 4. | A large building, or mass of buildings. |
| 5. | (Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. |
| 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. |
| 7. | The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. |
v. t. | 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. |
| 2. | To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. |
Noun | 1. | pile - a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
| 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" |
| 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) |
| 5. | pile - battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |
| 6. | pile - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
| 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" |
| 8. | pile - a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
Verb | 1. | pile - arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" |
| 2. | pile - press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
| 3. | pile - place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" |