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Piling
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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.
EXPANDInformal. 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.
COLLAPSEElectricity. voltaic pile.
verb (used with object)
9.
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.
verb (used without object)
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.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin pīla pillar, mole of stone
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin pīla pillar, mole of stone
Synonyms
1. collection, heap, mass, accumulation, stack, mound, batch.
1. collection, heap, mass, accumulation, stack, mound, batch.
noun
Idiom1.
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.
6.
in pile, Heraldry. (of a number of charges) arranged in the manner of a pile.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English pīl shaft < Latin pīlum javelin
before 1000; Middle English; Old English pīl shaft < Latin pīlum javelin
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Word Origin & History
pile
"soft, raised surface upon cloth," mid-14c., from Anglo-Norm. pyle or M.Du. pijl, both from L. pilus "hair." Phonological evidence rules out transmission via O.Fr. cognate peil, poil.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
pile (pīl)
n.
A hemorrhoid.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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