pile

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pile
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Meanings
noun
  • a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another.
    E.g. he placed the books in a neat pile
  • a large imposing building or group of buildings.
    E.g. a Victorian Gothic pile
  • a series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current.
  • a nuclear reactor.
verb
  • place (things) one on top of the other.
    E.g. she piled all the groceries on the counter
  • (of a group of people) get into or out of a vehicle or space in a disorganized manner.
    E.g. ten of us piled into the minibus
noun
  • a heavy stake or post driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a superstructure.
  • a triangular charge or ordinary formed by two lines meeting at an acute angle, usually pointing down from the top of the shield.
verb
  • strengthen or support (a structure) with piles.
    E.g. an earlier bridge may have been piled
noun
  • the soft projecting surface of a carpet or a fabric such as velvet or flannel, consisting of many small threads.
    E.g. the thick pile of the new rugs

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