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1  [pahyl] noun, verb, piled, pil⋅ing.
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–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
9. to lay or dispose in a pile (often fol. by up): to pile up the fallen autumn leaves.
10. to accumulate or store (often fol. 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.
–verb (used without object)
12. to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually fol. 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 fol. by up): The snow is piling up on the roofs.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF < L pīla pillar, mole of stone

Synonyms:
1. collection, heap, mass, accumulation, stack, mound, batch.
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pile

2  [pahyl] noun, verb, piled, pil⋅ing.
–noun
1. 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.
2. Heraldry. an ordinary in the form of a wedge or triangle coming from one edge of the escutcheon, from the chief unless otherwise specified.
3. Archery. the sharp head or striking end of an arrow, usually of metal and of the form of a wedge or conical nub.
–verb (used with object)
4. to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles.
5. to drive piles into.
—Idiom
6. in pile, Heraldry. (of a number of charges) arranged in the manner of a pile.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE pīl shaft < L pīlum javelin

pile

3  [pahyl]
–noun
1. hair.
2. soft, fine hair or down.
3. wool, fur, or pelage.
4. a fabric with a surface of upright yarns, cut or looped, as corduroy, Turkish toweling, velvet, and velveteen.
5. such a surface.
6. one of the strands in such a surface.
Origin:
1300–50; ME piles hair, plumage < L pilus hair; -i- short in L but long in Anglicized school pronunciation

pile

4  [pahyl]
–noun Usually, piles.
1. a hemorrhoid.
2. the condition of having hemorrhoids.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME pyles (pl.) < L pilae lit., balls. See pill 1

pile

5  [pahyl]
–noun
the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME pyl reverse of a coin < ML pīla, special use of L pīla pile 1

hem⋅or⋅rhoid

  [hem-uh-roid, hem-roid]
–noun
Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid).
Also called pile.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME emoroides (pl.) < L haemorrhoid(a) < Gk haimorroḯda (adj.) discharging blood

Related forms:
hem⋅or⋅rhoi⋅dal, adjective

re⋅ac⋅tor

  [ree-ak-ter]
–noun
1. a person or thing that reacts or undergoes reaction.
2. Electricity. a device whose primary purpose is to introduce reactance into a circuit.
3. Immunology, Veterinary Medicine. a patient or animal that reacts positively towards a foreign material.
4. Also called atomic pile, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, nuclear reactor, pile. Physics. an apparatus in which a nuclear-fission chain reaction can be initiated, sustained, and controlled, for generating heat or producing useful radiation.
5. Chemistry. (esp. in industry) a large container, as a vat, for processes in which the substances involved undergo a chemical reaction.
Origin:
1885–90; 1940–45 for def. 4; react + -or 2

voltaic pile

 
–noun Electricity.
an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
Also called galvanic pile, pile, Volta's pile.

Origin:
1805–15
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pile 1   (pīl)   
n.  
  1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap.
  2. Informal A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of trouble.
  3. Slang A large sum of money; a fortune: made their pile in the commodities market.
  4. A funeral pyre.
  5. A very large building or complex of buildings.
  6. A nuclear reactor.
  7. A voltaic pile.
v.   piled, pil·ing, piles

v.   tr.
    1. To place or lay in or as if in a pile or heap: piled books onto the table.
    2. To load (something) with a heap or pile: piled the table with books.
  2. To heap (something) in abundance: piled potato salad onto the plate.
v.   intr.
  1. To form a heap or pile.
  2. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group: pile into a bus; pile out of a car.
Phrasal Verb(s):
pile up
  1. To accumulate.
  2. Informal To undergo a serious vehicular collision.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīla, pillar.]
pile 2   (pīl)   
n.  
  1. A heavy beam of timber, concrete, or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.
  2. Heraldry A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.
  3. A Roman javelin.
tr.v.   piled, pil·ing, piles
  1. To drive piles into.
  2. To support with piles.

[Middle English, from Old English pīl, shaft, stake, from Latin pīlum, spear, pestle.]
pile 3   (pīl)   
n.  
    1. Cut or uncut loops of yarn forming the surface of certain fabrics, such as velvet, plush, and carpeting.
    2. The surface so formed.
  2. Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.

[From Middle English piles, hair, plumage, probably from Middle Dutch pijl, fine hair, and Middle Low German pile, downy plumage, both from Latin pilus, hair.]
piled adj.
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pile  (1)
"mass, heap," c.1410, "pillar, pier of a bridge," from L. pila "stone barrier." Sense development in L. from "pier, harbor wall of stones," to "something heaped up." In Eng., sense of "heap of things" is attested from 1440 (the verb in this sense is recorded from c.1358). The meaning "large building" (c.1378) is probably also derived from this word. Pile on "attack vigorously" is from 1894, Amer.Eng. Pile-up "multi-vehicle crash" first recorded 1929.

pile  (2)
"heavy pointed beam," from O.E. pil "stake," also "arrow," from L. pilum heavy javelin of the Roman foot soldier, lit. "pestle" (source of O.N. pila, Ger. Pfeil "arrow"). Pile-driver in the fig. sense of "very strong hit" is recorded from 1958.

pile  (3)
"soft, raised surface upon cloth," c.1340, from Anglo-Norm. pyle or M.Du. pijl, both from L. pilus "hair." Phonological evidence rules out transmission via O.Fr. cognate peil, poil.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : pile
Spanish: montón, pila,
German: der Haufen,
Japanese: 積み重ね
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Main Entry: pile
Pronunciation: 'pI(&)l
Function: noun
1 : a single hemorrhoid
2 piles pl : HEMORRHOIDS; also : the condition of one affected with hemorrhoids
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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pile (pīl)
n.
A hemorrhoid.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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PILE
1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.
["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282].
2. ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].
(1999-06-04)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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pile

In addition to the idioms beginning with pile, also see make a bundle (pile).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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