pile

1. 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

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.

1. to lay or dispose in a pile (often followed by up ):

   to pile up the fallen autumn leaves.

2. to accumulate or store (often followed by up ):

   to pile up money; squirrels piling up nuts against the winter.

3. to cover or load with a pile:

   He piled the wagon with hay.

1. to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up ).
2. Informal. to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster:

   to pile off a train.

3. to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up ):

   The snow is piling up on the roofs.

verb phrase

1. 1. to add or give in a plentiful or excessive manner: My mother-in-law finds a way to pile on more criticism of my life choices every time we visit.

      This ice cream shop really piles on the toppings.

      My mother-in-law finds a way to pile on more criticism of my life choices every time we visit.

   2. Sports. to jump onto the pile of bodies after an opponent has been brought to the ground and the play has been ended.
   3. to join a hostile group in harshly criticizing or judging a less dominant group or individual, sometimes gloating over that group’s or person's defeat or diminished standing.

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.

1. to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles.
2. to drive piles into.

1. a fabric with a surface of upright yarns, cut or looped, as corduroy, Turkish toweling, velvet, and velveteen.
2. such a surface.
3. one of the strands in such a surface.
4. soft, fine hair or down.
5. wool, fur, or pelage.
6. hair ( def 1 ).

1. Usually piles. a hemorrhoid.
2. piles, the condition of having hemorrhoids.

1. the lower of two dies for coining by hand.