Pile

English Meaning

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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.
8. To place or lay in or as if in a pile or heap: piled books onto the table.
9. To load (something) with a heap or pile: piled the table with books.
10. To heap (something) in abundance: piled potato salad onto the plate.
11. To form a heap or pile.
12. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group: pile into a bus; pile out of a car.
13. pile up To accumulate.
14. pile up Informal To undergo a serious vehicular collision.
15. A heavy beam of timber, concrete, or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.
16. Heraldry A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.
17. A Roman javelin.
18. To drive piles into.
19. To support with piles.
20. Cut or uncut loops of yarn forming the surface of certain fabrics, such as velvet, plush, and carpeting.
21. The surface so formed.
22. Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.