Definitions for pile

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pile pile

Spelling: [pahyl]

IPA: /paɪl/

Pile is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in pile (eilp).

Definitions for pile

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. a hemorrhoid.
19. the condition of having hemorrhoids.
20. the lower of two dies for coining by hand.

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 pile

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

Examples for pile

Far away was the night nurse's desk, with its lamp, its annunciator, its pile of records.

In early October, Health Republic allowed me to submit a “grievance claim” which I filed, along with a pile of backup documents.

Then she saw Kingozi himself take his place by the pile of loads.

This afternoon I took a round of angles and bearings from a pile of stones on the hill.

Hitchcock leans toward me in a conspiratorial, almost lascivious, way and says, “Let's pile on the menace.”

After finishing breakfast, we pile back into the truck and head toward the checkpoint.

It would have saved somebody in New York a pile of money if you had left it.

One or two arose wearily and stiffly, and dragged their loads to the pile.

Pre-sizing eliminates the opportunity to pile those taters too high.

Inside a box I could see a pile of whips, chains, ball gags, and hoods.