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Definitions for Piles

[1] an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
[2] Informal . a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work.
[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: the noble pile of Windsor Castle.
[5] Informal . a large accumulation of money: They made a pile on Wall Street.
[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] to lay or dispose in a pile (often followed by up ): to pile up the fallen autumn leaves.
[10] to accumulate or store (often followed by up ): to pile up money; squirrels piling up nuts against the winter.
[11] to cover or load with a pile: He piled the wagon with hay.
[12] to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up ).
[13] Informal . to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster: to pile off a train.
[14] to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up ): The snow is piling up on the roofs.
[15] 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.
[16] Heraldry . an ordinary in the form of a wedge or triangle coming from one edge of the escutcheon, from the chief unless otherwise specified.
[17] Archery . the sharp head or striking end of an arrow, usually of metal and of the form of a wedge or conical nub.
[18] to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles.
[19] to drive piles into.
[20] hair.
[21] soft, fine hair or down.
[22] wool, fur, or pelage.
[23] a fabric with a surface of upright yarns, cut or looped, as corduroy, Turkish toweling, velvet, and velveteen.
[24] such a surface.
[25] one of the strands in such a surface.
[26] the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
[27] a hemorrhoid.
[28] the condition of having hemorrhoids.
[29] a nontechnical name for haemorrhoids
[30] a collection of objects laid on top of one another or of other material stacked vertically; heap; mound
[31] informal a large amount of money (esp in the phrase make a pile )
[32] (often plural) informal a large amount a pile of work
[33] a less common word for pyre
[34] a large building or group of buildings
[35] short for voltaic pile
[36] physics a structure of uranium and a moderator used for producing atomic energy; nuclear reactor
[37] metallurgy an arrangement of wrought-iron bars that are to be heated and worked into a single bar
[38] the point of an arrow
[39] (often foll by up) to collect or be collected into or as if into a pile snow piled up in the drive
[40] (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
[41] pile arms to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
[42] pile it on informal to exaggerate
[43] 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)
[44] heraldry an ordinary shaped like a wedge, usually displayed point-downwards
[45] to drive (piles) into the ground
[46] to provide or support (a structure) with piles
[47] textiles the yarns in a fabric that stand up or out from the weave, as in carpeting, velvet, flannel, etc one of these yarns
[48] soft fine hair, fur, wool, etc

Words related to Piles

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Origin of Piles

41375–1425; late Middle English pyles (plural) < Latin pilae literally, balls. See pill1

Word origin for Piles

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

Synonyms for Piles

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