pile
noun
[ pʌɪl ]
• a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another.
• "he placed the books in a neat pile"
Similar:
heap,
stack,
mound,
pyramid,
mass,
quantity,
bundle,
clump,
bunch,
jumble,
collection,
accumulation,
assemblage,
store,
stockpile,
aggregation,
hoard,
load,
tower,
rick,
cold deck,
rickle,
bing,
• a large imposing building or group of buildings.
• "a Victorian Gothic pile"
Similar:
mansion,
stately home,
hall,
manor,
big house,
manor house,
country house,
castle,
palace,
edifice,
impressive building/structure,
residence,
abode,
seat,
château,
manoir,
palazzo,
• a series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current.
• a nuclear reactor.
pile
verb
• place (things) one on top of the other.
• "she piled all the groceries on the counter"
Similar:
heap (up),
stack (up),
make a heap/pile/stack of,
accumulate,
assemble,
put together,
• (of a group of people) get into or out of a vehicle or space in a disorganized manner.
• "ten of us piled into the minibus"
Similar:
crowd,
climb,
charge,
tumble,
stream,
flock,
flood,
pack,
squeeze,
push,
shove,
jostle,
elbow,
crush,
jam,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’.
pile
noun
• a heavy stake or post driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a superstructure.
Similar:
post,
rod,
pillar,
column,
support,
foundation,
piling,
plinth,
pedestal,
foot,
footing,
base,
substructure,
underpinning,
bed,
subfloor,
abutment,
pier,
cutwater,
buttress,
stanchion,
prop,
stay,
upright,
underprop,
• a triangular charge or ordinary formed by two lines meeting at an acute angle, usually pointing down from the top of the shield.
pile
verb
• strengthen or support (a structure) with piles.
• "an earlier bridge may have been piled"
Origin:
Old English pīl ‘dart, arrow’, also ‘pointed stake’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’.
pile
noun
• the soft projecting surface of a carpet or a fabric such as velvet or flannel, consisting of many small threads.
• "the thick pile of the new rugs"
Similar:
fibres,
threads,
loops,
nap,
velvet,
shag,
plush,
fur,
hair,
soft surface,
surface,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘downy feather’): from Latin pilus ‘hair’. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century.
