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piled

  [pahyld]
Use piled in a Sentence
–adjective
having a pile, as velvet and other fabrics.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME: covered with hair; see pile 3 , -ed 3

pile

1  [pahyl] noun, verb, piled, pil⋅ing.
–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.

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
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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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