Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PILE

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Definitions of PILE

1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
2. A mass formed in layers.
3. A funeral pile; a pyre.
4. A large building, or mass of buildings.
5. 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.
6. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
7. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
8. A list or league
9. The head of an arrow or spear.
10. 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.
11. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
12. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
13. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
14. (slang) A large amount of money.
15. (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
16. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
17. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
18. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
19. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
20. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
21. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
22. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
23. (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
24. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
25. (usually, in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
26. (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
27. A surname.

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