[
UK
/pˈaɪlɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈpaɪɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpaɪɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
How To Use piling In A Sentence
- Ministers have spent nearly 500million stockpiling the antiviral drug in case of a deadly epidemic but there are doubts it is effective. The Sun
- Doherty took a 6-2 lead last night, compiling a 107 break in the second frame but Dale hit the highest break of the televised stages with a 140 in the seventh frame.
- Ever since we first published the book we have been busy compiling a file of local news, newspaper cuttings and potential updates.
- The work keeps piling up
- He lambasted software companies for piling on marginal features in incessant upgrades that can downgrade user efficiency.
- Full client participation is essential to ensure accuracy when compiling the information model.
- The lawyer says his client has started compiling documents that he says will authenticate her life story as she tells it in the book.
- At this point in the economic cycle, they are piling up like used tires: debt-sacked college kids who can't get jobs, foreclosed homeowners, failed small-business owners, pink-slipped employees, millions suddenly ejected from the middle class and now a couple Republican candidates who won't be our next president. Occupy Mitt Romney!
- The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
- In this role he had responsibility for compiling intelligence dossiers on its enemies; for planning counter-espionage and for establishing and supervising fascist cells operating in the trade union movement.