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- Dictionarypile/pʌɪl/
noun
- 1. a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another: "he placed the books in a neat pile" Similar
- 2. a large imposing building or group of buildings: "a Victorian Gothic pile" Similar
verb
- 1. place (things) one on top of the other: "she piled all the groceries on the counter" Similar
- 2. (of a group of people) get into or out of a vehicle or space in a disorganized manner: "ten of us piled into the minibus" Similar
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noun (1) ˈpī (-ə)l. plural piles. Synonyms of pile. 1. : a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load. … thus Ellet reported that the riverbed was … firm enough to drive piles into for the foundations of piers.
PILE definition: 1. objects positioned one on top of another: 2. a mass of something that has been placed…. Learn more.
noun. an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks. Synonyms: batch, mound, stack, accumulation, heap, collection, mass. Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work. a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood.
[countable] a large wooden, metal or stone post that is fixed into the ground and used to support a building, bridge, etc. [countable] (formal or humorous) a large impressive building. a Victorian pile built as a private hospital. her family's ancestral pile. Topics Houses and homes c2. Word Origin. Idioms. (at the) bottom/top of the pile.
n. 1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap. 2. Informal. a. A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of work to do. b. A large amount of money: made a pile in the real estate boom. 3. A nuclear reactor. 4. A voltaic pile. 5. A very large building or complex of buildings. 6. A funeral pyre.
an amount of a substance in the shape of a small hill or a number of objects on top of each other: a pile of books / bricks. a pile of sand / rubbish. The clothes were arranged in piles on the floor. Fewer examples. He left his clothes in a muddled pile in the corner. He hid the letter beneath a pile of papers.
Definitions of pile. noun. a collection of objects laid on top of each other. synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound. see more. noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.
Pile definition: A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap.
pile. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Material & textiles, Civil pile1 /paɪl/ S2 noun 1 arrangement of things [ countable] a group of several things of the same type that are put on top of each other SYN stack pile of His mother came in carrying a pile of ironing in her arms.
