pile
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Is pile a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.Examples: "When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile"informal
2. (slang) A large amount of money.Examples: "He made a pile from that invention of his."; "When they are at work they live most frugally, denying themselves every comfort and luxury till they have made a "pile.""Synonyms: bundle, mint, small fortuneslang
3. (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
4. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulateExamples: "They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow."Synonyms: heapoftentransitive
2. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.Examples: "We piled the camel with our loads."; "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster."transitive
3. (transitive) To add something to a great number.Examples: "But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages."transitive
4. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.transitive
5. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.transitive
6. (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.Examples: "Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums."; "I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo."Synonyms: accumulate, pile upintransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.obsolete
2. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.transitive
noun (English)
1. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.plural-normally
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary