Definitions for piles

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piles pile

Spelling: [pahyl]

IPA: /paɪl/

Piles is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in piles (eilps).

Definitions for piles

noun

1. an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
2. Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything:
3. a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
4. a lofty or large building or group of buildings:
5. Informal. a large accumulation of money:
6. a bundle of pieces of iron ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; fagot.
7. reactor (def 4).
8. Electricity. voltaic pile.
9. a cylindrical or flat member of wood, steel, concrete, etc., often tapered or pointed at the lower end, hammered vertically into soil to form part of a foundation or retaining wall.
10. Heraldry. an ordinary in the form of a wedge or triangle coming from one edge of the escutcheon, from the chief unless otherwise specified.
11. Archery. the sharp head or striking end of an arrow, usually of metal and of the form of a wedge or conical nub.
12. hair.
13. soft, fine hair or down.
14. wool, fur, or pelage.
15. a fabric with a surface of upright yarns, cut or looped, as corduroy, Turkish toweling, velvet, and velveteen.
16. such a surface.
17. one of the strands in such a surface.
18. the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
19. a hemorrhoid.
20. the condition of having hemorrhoids.

Idioms

1. in pile, Heraldry. (of a number of charges) arranged in the manner of a pile.

verb (used with object)

1. to lay or dispose in a pile (often followed by up):
2. to accumulate or store (often followed by up):
3. to cover or load with a pile:
4. to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles.
5. to drive piles into.

verb (used without object)

1. to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up).
2. Informal. to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster:
3. to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up):

Origin of piles

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Latin pīla pillar, mole of stone

Examples for piles

For whereas three candidates were in nomination, the ballots were forming but two piles.

piles and piles of them, suddenly somewhat devalued in my eyes.

The piles of vegetables on the pavement now extended to the verge of the roadway.

The house was but a glorified hut on piles, unfenced and lonely.

piles of anti-submarine devices were taken from the holds of these ships.

These piles were stems, or trunks of trees, sharpened with stone or bronze tools.

He piles the trash into the can and stands in the gutter, waiting for the light to change.

“I have three piles of fundraising,” she said, pushing aside a sliced egg and avocado salad to demonstrate.

Outside the house, some people sat on the piles of rock in front of their now exposed living rooms and bedrooms.

On busier roads, elderly, scarved women sat by piles of potatoes and onions hoping forlornly for a sale.