French Meaning of pile

pile

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Definitions and Meaning of pile in English

Wordnet

pile (n)

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

Wordnet

pile (v)

arrange in stacks

press tightly together or cram

place or lay as if in a pile

Webster

pile (n.)

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

A covering of hair or fur.

The head of an arrow or spear.

A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

A large building, or mass of buildings.

Same as Fagot, n., 2.

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

Webster

pile (v. t.)

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

FAQs About the word pile

pile

a collection of objects laid on top of each other, (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent, a large sum of money (especially as pay or profi

butte,Pile,Coq,collection,tas,colline,trésor,couche,montagne,accumulation

as,Atome,bit,miette,dab,point,dram,fragment,lueur,céréale

pildia => pildia, pilcrow => symbole de paragraphe, pilcher => yole, pilchard => sardine, pilch => pilch,