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a collection of objects laid on top of each other

press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"

place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

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"

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

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"

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

informal: a large sum of money

place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A large beam driven into the ground to make a firm foundation; a mass or heap; as, a pile of sand; colloquially, a great quantity; a collection; a large building; nap of cloth.

To throw into a heap; to collect and arrange; as, to pile bricks; accumulate or collect; as, to pile up wealth; build; drive beams into.

To form a mass or heap; collect.

A series of plates of two different metals imposed alternately one on the other separated by a sheet of cloth or paper moistened with a dilute acid solution, used to produce a current of electricity; a battery.

An individual hemorrhoidal tumor.

A roundish mass: a heap: combustibles for burning, esp. dead bodies: a large building: a heap of shot or shell: (electricity) a form of battery.

To lay in a pile or heap: to collect in a mass: to heap up: to fill above the brim.

To drive piles into.

A hairy surface: the nap on cloth.

To drive piles into.

A heap; a mass or collection of things piled up, or of combustibles for burning a dead body; a large building or an edifice; a series of plates so arranged as to produce a current.

A large stake driven into the earth to support a building.

The nap or fine hairy substance on the surface of cloth.

To lay in a heap or pile; to collect together; to amass.

To drive piles into.

A large stake or piece of timber driven into the earth to support the foundation of a building or the pier of a bridge; one side of a coin-so called from the punch used in stamping the figures; the arms side of a coin, as distinguished from the head, which was formerly marked by a cross, hence the term cross and pile, as a name for money; in her., one of the lesser ordinaries having the form of a wedge.

A large building or mass of buildings; a heap of a roundish elevated form; a heap; an accumulation.

To collect or gather together in a heap; to accumulate; to fill above the brim or top.

Hairy surface; nap.

A heap; large building; large stake driven into the earth.

To gather into a pile; accumulate; amass.

A quantity heaped together; a heap.

Any great structure.

A heavy timber driven into the earth to form a foundation.

A massive building.

Hair collectively; fur; raised surface on velvet.

See battery.

See hemorrhoid. In this connection it is generally used in the plural,

n. [French, Latin, Greek] A roundish or elevated mass or collection of things; a heap;—a collection of combustibles for burning a dead body;—a heap of balls or shot raised in the form of a pyramid;—a large building or mass of buildings;—a vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, with disks of cloth or paper between them moistened with acid water for producing a current of electricity.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Latin] A piece of timber pointed and driven into the earth for the support of a building, a bridge, or the like.

n. [Latin] The fibre of wool, cotton, and the like; hence, the nap.