Pile

Quick meaning: Pile is a noun meaning A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

Meaning

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

More Meanings

1. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
2. A mass formed in layers.
3. A funeral pile; a pyre.
4. A large building, or mass of buildings.
5. 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.
6. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
7. (slang) A large amount of money.

Example Sentences

a pile of shot

He made a pile from that invention of his.

The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.

I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.

Word Forms

• piles
• piling
• piled

Synonyms for pile

Depending on context, synonyms include heap, pile up, bundle, mint, accumulate, slew.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heap, throng, mass, lot, slew, deal.

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