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Meaning pile meaning

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pile Noun

— A pile is a lot of things with some on the bottom and more on top. There was a neat pile of sheets and blankets at the foot of each bed. He found his phone under a pile of clothes. The children spent the afternoon jumping into leaf piles. in California has many huge rock piles. She reached for the next piece of paper on the top of the taller pile. — A pile is a long, strong post to support something like a bridge or building.

pile Verb

— If you pile something somewhere, you put a lot of it there. The table that was piled high with all sorts of fruit, cheese, cakes, and sweets. She piled the books on the corner of the desk. — If something piles (up), there is more an more of it. I listen to the snow piling on the roof. When I was away the work kept piling up. — If something piles on top of something else, it is added to it. The changes, piled on top of the problems at home were too much. — If people pile on, they attack somebody who is already being attacked. — If people pile in(to) a car, or some other small space, they get in quickly. — If people pile out of a car, or some other small space, they get out quickly.

pile

— noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other — verb (= stack, heap) arrange in stacks heap firewood around the fireplace stack your books up on the shelves — noun (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, wad) (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent a batch of letters a deal of trouble a lot of money he made a mint on the stock market see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos it must have cost plenty a slew of journalists a wad of money — noun (= bundle, megabucks) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) she made a bundle selling real estate they sank megabucks into their new house — verb (= pack) press tightly together or cram The crowd packed the auditorium — verb place or lay as if in a pile The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested — noun the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction — noun a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure — noun (= voltaic pile) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta — noun (= down) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) — noun (= atomic pile) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

Synonyms pile synonyms

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pile English » English

heap stack mass mound pile up accumulate heap up crowd accumulation nap multitude bunch mountain collection stake bundle amass load rampart pole group gather down stilt spile batch agglomeration wad swarm stack up pot pack lot layer hoard hemorrhoid flock cumulus collect assemble agglomerate wood pile tier tidy sum throng take set roll rick raft

Topics pile topics

What do people use pile to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Gather
Person Body functions

Defecate, feces
Physical actions Arrange Put

Load, pile
States Quantity Plural

Group of things

  • What words refer to a group of things that are put on top of each other?
    pile stack heap
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Universe, creation Plant

Growth of plants
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Accident
Social behavior Authority Status

Low status
States Quantity More

Increase

Conjugation pile conjugation

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pile · verb

Examples pile examples

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Simple sentences

This car is a pile of rubbish.
You ask me, child, what love is? A star in a pile of dung.
Markku made his pile as a caterer for the well-to-do.
There's a pile of letters on my desk that I have to answer.
The firemen were prevented from reaching the woman trapped in her house, because of the huge pile of junk she had accumulated over many years.
Tom threw his dirty socks on the pile of clothes in the corner of his room.
Tom put a pile of letters on Mary's desk.
There's a big pile of mail on your desk.
There's a squirrel in the wood pile.
The squirrel made a nest in the wood pile.
The long platform was almost deserted; the only living creature in sight being a girl who was sitting on a pile of shingles at the extreme end.
Is this supposed to be a car? This is a pile of junk!
How is it that dishes pile up so quickly?
I haven't had time to do the dishes for two days; they are in a pile in the kitchen sink.
Looking at the pile of laundry, I sighed.
Examine the pile of documents in advance.
Tom usually lets dirty dishes pile up for a week, then he washes them.
Tom has a whole pile of unpaid parking tickets.
Whose pile of junk is this?
Can the fire of the heart be extinguished in the flames of the funeral pile?
This is just a pile of bullshit!
You do not have to pile everything in one heap.
Tom has a pile of textbooks on his desk.
The book that I wanted was at the bottom of the pile.

Movie subtitles

What. - I'm only asking because I understand most of what you do is paper pushing, so I-I don't understand why you can't push our paper to the top of the pile.
Just a pile of letters with the most incredible accusations!
A car drives up and some guys pile out.
He's in there under a pile of straw, sir.
Hey, listen, little man, the graveyards up here is full of gold hopheads. guys that smoked a pipeful of hope. had glittering yellow dreams and ended up under a pile of rocks in frozen ground.
We thought it was something to pile wood in.
My, my, my! What a pile of dirty dishes! And just look at that broom!
The answer can't be just to pay bills or pile up more money.
Take these loads out in the clearing and pile them all in one place.
Pile the rest of this stuff up, boys.
Come, Cicily, let's go to our room, pile the furniture in front of the door and go to bed.
Come on, pile them up. Are you working for him?
Everything on that pile makes noise except the horn.
Pile this stuff in the wagons.
Everybody had a pile of observations from the same position in the sky.
I understand most of what you do is paper pushing, so I-I don't understand why you can't push our paper to the top of the pile.
A pile of dough. - How?
This rain seems to have uncovered a pile of garbage around here.
Just pile them up wherever you can find room.
But when I do. I'm going to sit on top of the pile with a gun and watch it grow.
When I get hold of a pile of money-- which I aim to, and soon-- you'll be treatin'me right.
Pile into my car and drive up to Palm Beach.
What a pile of dirty dishes!
Think you can lick 'em all? I'll fight 'em or wrestle 'em if they'll come at me and pile 'em up under the tree.
It's just another thing to throw on the pile of what the hell's going on here.
Under the pile of linen.
When I give the signal, you all start work on this rock pile.
A man from the country under a pile.
What a pile.
With my head in a pile of seaweed.
You're like a gardener. a pile of manure warming tender shoots.
Come on, pile into bed.
No. Pile right in.
Then what're you doing out here in this floating junk pile?
No matter how many planes and tanks and guns you pile up, no matter how many men you got, it doesn't mean a thing, unless the men get the stuff when they need it.
They found what was left of a neat pile of shavings.

News and current affairs

And Alan Greenspan egged them to pile on the risk by encouraging these variable-rate mortgages.
And, for daring investors, it is not enough to find a bubble to pile into.
After his violent death in 2002, Geert Wilders, a former punk rocker with a pile of dyed platinum blond hair, shone brightest in the Dutch populist firmament.
Americans will continue to pile up debt because Asians want them to do that.
When there is no yield in fixed income, even the most conservative pension funds pile into risk assets, driving prices higher and higher.
Rich countries like Germany can afford to pile more and more indirect taxes on business, and erect more and more obstacles to the efficient operation of business for a long time.
Without more sophisticated arguments, they might well find themselves submerged under a pile of regulatory sandbags.
The result: hedgehogs make more mistakes, but they pile up more hits on Google.
The strong Yen led to weak demand for Japanese products, and an inability to surmount the pile of bad debts through export-led growth.
As more investors pile into overvalued, increasingly illiquid assets - such as bonds - the risk of a long-term crash increases.
Worse still (if one can compare such atrocities) is a video showing fur-bearing animals being skinned alive and thrown onto a pile of other animals, where they are left to die slowly.
These days, no politician dares to suggest that continuing to pile up debt is the way to go, even though few are prepared to articulate a credible plan for fiscal consolidation.
It may pile up in bank reserves or savings accounts, or it may produce asset bubbles.
With so much of US national income going to so few, growth could continue only through consumption financed by a mounting pile of debt.
Greece's debt crisis was a clear warning that European policymakers must not allow public debt to pile up indefinitely.
As a result, people assumed that the problem of monetary stability had been solved, and that they could pile up assets and then use them as collateral to borrow ever-larger sums.
That leaves only one solution: pile on new claims to such an extent that old debts appear paltry.
And, with such a target, it is not very difficult to poke holes and pile on the ridicule.
Yes, China does pile up reserves in dollars.
Thus, the CBR would be able to provide a massive pile of rubles to Rosneft at below-market rates.
As the rulings pile up, they are starting to pose a threat to Russia's international standing, its financial health, and Putin himself.

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