[
UK
/pˈaɪl/
]
[ US /ˈpaɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpaɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
-
a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
they sank megabucks into their new house
she made a bundle selling real estate - 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 column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
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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 -
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market - battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
VERB
-
press tightly together or cram
The crowd packed the auditorium -
arrange in stacks
stack your books up on the shelves
heap firewood around the fireplace -
place or lay as if in a pile
The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested
How To Use pile In A Sentence
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
- Pile each croute with the prawn mixture and serve at once. The Sun
- Virtually any UNIX or Linux system will compile SISAL code in single processor mode.
- Pile mayo on to the egg and sprinkle with some finely chopped parsley. The Sun
- I disagreed with something…kind of bristled at how something was characterized and was piled on. Scott Brown Posed in Cosmo’s Center-Fold 28 Years Ago — And So What? - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
- As a prelude to the book, Dr Mitra has compiled an audio CD of some of the works that will appear in the forthcoming book.
- They left behind a huge pile of ripped bin bags overflowing with pizza boxes and cans. The Sun
- This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
- The optimized compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode.