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Definitions for Piled

[1] having a pile, as velvet and other fabrics.
[2] an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
[3] Informal . a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work.
[4] a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
[5] a lofty or large building or group of buildings: the noble pile of Windsor Castle.
[6] Informal . a large accumulation of money: They made a pile on Wall Street.
[7] a bundle of pieces of iron ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; fagot.
[8] reactor(def 4) .
[9] Electricity . voltaic pile.
[10] to lay or dispose in a pile (often followed by up ): to pile up the fallen autumn leaves.
[11] to accumulate or store (often followed by up ): to pile up money; squirrels piling up nuts against the winter.
[12] to cover or load with a pile: He piled the wagon with hay.
[13] to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up ).
[14] Informal . to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster: to pile off a train.
[15] to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up ): The snow is piling up on the roofs.
[16] 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.
[17] Heraldry . an ordinary in the form of a wedge or triangle coming from one edge of the escutcheon, from the chief unless otherwise specified.
[18] Archery . the sharp head or striking end of an arrow, usually of metal and of the form of a wedge or conical nub.
[19] to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles.
[20] to drive piles into.
[21] a collection of objects laid on top of one another or of other material stacked vertically; heap; mound
[22] informal a large amount of money (esp in the phrase make a pile )
[23] (often plural) informal a large amount a pile of work
[24] a less common word for pyre
[25] a large building or group of buildings
[26] short for voltaic pile
[27] physics a structure of uranium and a moderator used for producing atomic energy; nuclear reactor
[28] metallurgy an arrangement of wrought-iron bars that are to be heated and worked into a single bar
[29] the point of an arrow
[30] (often foll by up) to collect or be collected into or as if into a pile snow piled up in the drive
[31] (intr; foll by in, into, off, out, etc ) to move in a group, esp in a hurried or disorganized manner to pile off the bus
[32] pile arms to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
[33] pile it on informal to exaggerate
[34] a long column of timber, concrete, or steel that is driven into the ground to provide a foundation for a vertical load (a bearing pile) or a group of such columns to resist a horizontal load from earth or water pressure (a sheet pile)
[35] heraldry an ordinary shaped like a wedge, usually displayed point-downwards
[36] to drive (piles) into the ground
[37] to provide or support (a structure) with piles
[38] textiles the yarns in a fabric that stand up or out from the weave, as in carpeting, velvet, flannel, etc one of these yarns
[39] soft fine hair, fur, wool, etc

Words related to Piled

mountain, pyramid, chunk, lump, accumulation, hill, stockpile, hunk, mass, jumble, assortment, ocean, stack, quantity, pot, wad, bundle, load, assemble, collect

Words nearby Piled

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Origin of Piled

2before 1000; Middle English; Old English pīl shaft < Latin pīlum javelin

Word origin for Piled

C15: from Anglo-Norman pyle, from Latin pilus hair

Synonyms for Piled

accumulation, assortment, chunk, hill, hunk, jumble, lump, mass, mountain, ocean, pyramid, quantity, stack, stockpile, aggregate, aggregation, assemblage, bank, barrel, buildup, conglomeration, drift, gob, hoard, mound, much, oodles, pack, peck, shock, amassment, great deal