Pile

Noun

 * 1)  A dart; an arrow.
 * 2) The head of an arrow or spear.
 * 3) A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
 * 4)  One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
 * 1)  One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

Verb

 * 1)  To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

Noun

 * 1)  A hemorrhoid.

Noun

 * 1) A mass of things heaped together; a heap
 * a pile of stones
 *  a pile of wood.
 * 1)  A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
 * When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.
 * 1) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
 * 2) A funeral pile; a pyre.
 * 3) A large building, or mass of buildings.
 * 4) A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
 * 5) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; &mdash; commonly called Volta’s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
 * 6)  The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
 * 1)  The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lot

Verb

 * 1)  To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; &mdash; often with up; as, to pile up wood.
 * 2)  To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
 * We piled the camel with our loads.
 * 1)  To add something to a great number.
 * 2)  (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
 * 1)  (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

Noun

 * 1) Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
 * 2) The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.
 * Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. &mdash; William Cowper

Adjectives for Pile
smoldering; vast; honest; unaffected; scholarly; dignified; heterogeneous; monumental; towering; amorphous; sumptuous; colossal; rambling; immense; enormous; unintelligent;  gigantic;   blazing;   aspiring; proud; gothic; voluptuous; chaotic; sunny; frothy; venerable; gloomy; wretched.

Adverbs for Pile
methodically; indiscriminately; commercially; toweringly; heterogeneously; monumentally.

Thesaurus
abscess, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amass, amassment, angina, angina pectoris, anthill, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, architecture, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, assault, assemblage, assemble, assortment, atherosclerosis, atomic pile, atrial fibrillation, attack, auricular fibrillation, back, backlog, bag, bags, baluster, balustrade, banister, bank, bank up, bankroll, barrel, base, batch, bed sore, beriberi heart, bestraddle, bestride, blade, blain, bleb, blister, board, boil, bomb, boodle, bottle, box, bract, bracteole, bractlet, breeder reactor, bricks, bristle, bristles, brush, bubo, budget, building, bulla, bundle, bunion, burden, can, canker, canker sore, capillament, carbuncle, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, caryatid, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, chancre, chancroid, charge, chilblain, choke, cilium, climb on, coat, cock, cold sore, collect, collection, colonnade, column, commissariat, commissary, concentration, congenital heart disease, congeries, conglomeration, considerable, construct, construction, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, cornucopia, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, cotyledon, crate, crowd in, cumulate, cumulation, dado, deal, deposit, diastolic hypertension, die, down, drift, dump, dune, edifice, eiderdown, embankment, encased heart, endocarditis, enter, erection, eschar, establishment, exaggerate, exit, extrasystole, fabric, fast pile, fatty heart, feel, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fibroid heart, fill, finish, fistula, flag, flask-shaped heart, fleece, floral leaf, floss, flue, fluff, foliole, footstalk, fortune, freight, frond, frosted heart, fur, furnace, furuncle, furunculus, fuzz, gathering, get in, get into, get on, glomeration, glume, go aboard, go on board, gobs, good deal, good sum, grain, granular texture, great deal, gumboil, hair, hairy heart, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap, heap up, heaps, heaps of gold, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, hemorrhoids, heterogeneous reactor, high blood pressure, hill, hoard, holdings, homogeneous reactor, hop in, horsehair, house, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, intermediate pile, inventory, involucre, involucrum, ischemic heart disease, jack, jam in, jumble, jump in, jump on, kibe, knub, lade, lamina, larder, large sum, lashings, lattice, leaf, leaflet, leave, leg, lemma, lesion, ligule, lint, load, loads, loot, lot, lots, lump, mane, mass, material, materials, materiel, mess, millions, mint, mint of money, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, molehill, money, mound, mount, mountain, mow, much, munitions, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myovascular insufficiency, nap, needle, neutron factory, newel-post, nub, nuclear furnace, oceans, oodles, overwhelm, ox heart, pack, pack away, pack in, packaged house, packet, pale, palisade, palpitation, papula, papule, paralytic stroke, paronychia, paroxysmal tachycardia, parulis, peck, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg, pelt, pericarditis, petal, petechia, picket, pier, pilaster, pile in, pile it on, pile out, pile up, piles, piling, pillar, pimple, pine needle, pit, plenitude, plenty, plethora, plinth, plush, plutonium reactor, pock, pocket, pole, polyp, post, pot, potful, power of money, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, prefab, prefabrication, premature beat, pretty penny, protuberance, provisionment, provisions, pseudoaortic insufficiency, pubescence, pubic hair, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pustule, pyramid, pyre, quantity, queen-post, quite a little, radioactive waste, raft, rafts, rations, reactor, reactor pile, repertoire, repertory, rheumatic heart disease, rick, rising, rods, roll, round heart, ruck, sack, scab, scads, sclerosis, seed leaf, sepal, setula, shaft, shag, shank, ship, shock, sight, skyscraper, slew, slews, slow pile, snowdrift, socle, soft chancre, sore, spate, spathe, spear, spile, spire, stack, stack up, stacks, staff, stake, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stellarator, stem, stigma, stipula, stipule, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, stony heart, store, stores, stow, stroke, structure, sty, subbase, superabundance, superstructure, supplies, supply, supply on hand, suppuration, surbase, surface, surface texture, swansdown, swelling, tachycardia, texture, thistledown, thousands, thrombosis, tidy sum, tons, tower, treasure, treasury, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, trunk, tubercle, tumulus, turtle heart, ulcer, ulceration, upright, uranium reactor, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation, wad, wads, wale, wealth, weave, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, whole slew, windrow, woof, wool, wound

Etymology 1
pil:, from, from pilum:. Cognate with Dutch pijl:, German Pfeil:.

Etymology 2
Apparently from pilus:.

Etymology 3
From pile:, pille:, from  pila:.

Etymology 4
Partly from pil: (a variant of peil:, poil:) and partly from its source,  pilus:.

Noun

 * Finnish: piili


 * Finnish: pää, kärki


 * Finnish: paalu


 * French: pieu

Verb

 * Finnish: paaluttaa

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, , ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 堆
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian: tumpukan
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 積み重ね (つみかさね, tsumikasane)
 * Korean: 무더기 (mudeogi)
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: haug, stabel
 * Portuguese: pilha, monte (desordenado)
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:


 * Finnish: pino
 * French:


 * Chinese:
 * Finnish: paristo
 * Finnish: paristo


 * French:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:


 * : Flor (2), Pfahl  (3), Spitze  (4)


 * : pila (6,11)

Verb

 * Finnish: kasata


 * Finnish: kasata


 * Finnish: kasata


 * Finnish: ruuhkauttaa

Related terms

 * funeral pile
 * pile bridge
 * pile driver
 * pile cap
 * pile on
 * pile up

Noun

 * Finnish: haiven


 * Portuguese:

Anagrams

 * plie, plié

Noun

 * 1) heap, stack
 * 2) pillar
 * 3) battery
 * 4) tails (of a coin)

Adverb

 * 1)  just, exactly
 * 2)  dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time)

Etymology
Latin pila (through Italian for the battery sense). The tail of a coin sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.

Anagrams

 * plie, plié

Noun

 * 1) fleece (all senses)

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Anagrams

 * peli

Noun

 * 1) chick

Etymology
From.