Definitions for piling

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piling pil·ing

Spelling: [pahy-ling]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ lɪŋ/

Piling is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in piling (giilnp).

Definitions for piling

noun

1. a mass of building piles considered collectively.
2. a structure composed of piles.
3. an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
4. Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything:
5. a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
6. a lofty or large building or group of buildings:
7. Informal. a large accumulation of money:
8. a bundle of pieces of iron ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; fagot.
9. reactor (def 4).
10. Electricity. voltaic pile.
11. 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.
12. Heraldry. an ordinary in the form of a wedge or triangle coming from one edge of the escutcheon, from the chief unless otherwise specified.
13. Archery. the sharp head or striking end of an arrow, usually of metal and of the form of a wedge or conical nub.

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 piling

First recorded in 1400-50, piling is from the late Middle English word pylyng. See pile², -ing¹

Examples for piling

The reporting errors out of Boston after the marathon blasts are piling up—and so is the finger-wagging on Twitter.

But the students chanced it, piling into three buses for the dangerous journey back home.

He went on carefully removing the honey, and piling it on the bank.

Heck, even the Pope is piling on, warning against greed as a “new idolatry.”

When done, place the compote in the centre of the dish, piling it up high.

The piling is left in permanently if it is not wanted again for use.

But it only barely makes up for the distress of watching the season of piling on.

They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill.

Evidence is piling up that as men do more of the caregiving, violence against women falls.

As they were piling their rifles, they heard a loud blubbering.