noun. A heavy beam of timber, concrete, or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.

noun. A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.

noun. A Roman javelin.

transitive verb. To drive piles into.

transitive verb. To support with piles.

noun. undefined

noun. Cut or uncut loops of yarn forming the surface of certain fabrics, such as velvet, plush, and carpeting.

noun. The surface so formed.

noun. Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.

noun. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. synonym: heap.

noun. undefined

noun. A large accumulation or quantity.

noun. A large amount of money.

noun. A nuclear reactor.

noun. A voltaic pile.

noun. A very large building or complex of buildings.

noun. A funeral pyre.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To place or lay in a pile or heap.

intransitive verb. To load (something) with a heap or pile.

intransitive verb. To add or increase to abundance or to a point of burdensomeness.

intransitive verb. To form a heap or pile.

intransitive verb. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group.

phrasal verb. To leap onto an existing pile of people, especially football players.

phrasal verb. To add or increase (something, such as criticism) abundantly or excessively.

phrasal verb. To accumulate.

phrasal verb. To undergo a serious vehicular collision.

To furnish with a pile or head.

To furnish, strengthen, or support with piles; drive piles into.

To lay or throw into a heap; heap, or heap up; collect into a pile or mass: as, to pile wood or stones.

To bring into an aggregate; accumulate: as, to pile quotations or comments.

Same as fagot, 2

noun. The pointed head of a staff, pike, arrow, or the like, when not barbed, generally of a rounded form and serving as a ferrule; also, an arrow.

noun. A javelin.

noun. [The above is an imitation of the following passage:

noun. A pointed stake; specifically, in architecture and engineering, a beam, heavy, generally of timber, often the roughly trimmed trunk of a tree, pointed or not at the end and driven into the soil for the support of some superstructure or to form part of a wall, as of a Coffer-dam or quay.

noun. A post such as that used in the exercise of the quintain.

noun. A heap consisting of an indefinite number of separate objects, commonly of the same kind, arranged of purpose or by natural causes in a more or less regular (cubical, pyramidal, cylindrical, or conical) form; a large mass, or a large quantity: as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood; a pile of money or of grain.

noun. Specifically A funeral pile; a pyre. See funeral pile, under funeral.

noun. An oblong rectangular mass of cut lengths of puddled bars of iron, laid together and ready for being rolled after being raised to a welding-temperature in a reheating-furnace.

noun. In electricity, a series of plates of two dissimilar metals, such as copper and zinc, laid one above the other alternately, with cloth or paper placed between each pair, moistened with an acid solution, for producing a current of electricity. See electricity.

noun. A large amount of money: a fortune: as, he has made his pile.

To furnish with pile; make shaggy.

To break off the awns of (threshed barley).

A Middle English form of pill.

noun. A pillar; specifically, a small pillar of iron, en- graved on the top with the image to be given to the under side of a coin stamped upon it; hence, the under side or reverse of the coin itself: opposed to the cross.

noun. A tower or castle: same as peel.

noun. A large building or mass of buildings of stone or brick; a massive edifice: as, a noble pile; a venerable pile.

noun. A pyramid; a pyramidal figure; specifically, in heraldry, a bearing consisting of a pyramidal or wedge-shaped figure (generally assumed to represent an arrow-head), which, unless otherwise blazoned, seems to emerge from the top of the escutcheon with its point downward. It is usually considered one of the subordinaries, but by some authors as an ordinary. See pile, 1, and phrases below.

noun. Hair.

""Nummus ratitus -- ce qu'aujourd'hui nous appellons jouer à croix ou à pile, car _pile_ est un vieil mot français qui signifiait un Navire,"

cross and pile  cross pile  cut pile  double pile  dry pile  

pile engine  to pile muskets  

funeral pile  pile bridge  pile cap  pile driver  pile on  

battery  crowd  crowd together  electric battery  lay  

Argyll  Kyle  Marseille  Mikhail  Niall  

bag  basket  bed  bit  building  

abscess  abundance  accumulate  accumulate  accumulation  

fagot  galvanic pile  reverse  volta's pile  voltaic pile  

piled  piles  piling