Definition of "pile"
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A dart; an arrow.
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The head of an arrow or spear.
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A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
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One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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A hemorrhoid.
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A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
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A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
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A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
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A funeral pile; a pyre.
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A large building, or mass of buildings.
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A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
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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.
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The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
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A list or league.
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Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.).
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The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.
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verb:
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To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
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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.
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To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
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To add something to a great number.
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(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
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