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pile

/paɪl/noun, verb1 syllable

Pile means: (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent.

Synonyms for pile50

noun, as in (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle
and 12 more, passel, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

noun, as in a collection of objects laid on top of each other

heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus

noun, as in a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money

noun, as in a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

spile, piling, stilt

noun, as in a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor

noun, as in battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

voltaic pile, galvanic pile

noun, as in fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

down

noun, as in the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

nap

verb, as in press tightly together or cram

throng, mob, pack, jam

verb, as in arrange in stacks

stack, heap

also used for pile

accumulate, pile up

Includes material from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What does pile mean?11

noun

1

(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent“a batch of letters”

2

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

3

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)“she made a bundle selling real estate”

4

a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

5

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

6

battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

7

fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

8

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”

verb

1

press tightly together or cram“The crowd packed the auditorium”

2

arrange in stacks“heap firewood around the fireplace”

3

place or lay as if in a pile“The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with pile?14

Show 40 near rhymes
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Pile in a sentence

  • When the years pile up, the more things you see.terrywallwork
  • The house just crumbled, turning into a pile of stones.AlanF_US
  • Ziri came over, carrying a huge pile of stuff.Amastan
  • We have, literally, a pile of food to eat.lucasmg123
  • At the park bench, fallen leaves piled up.CuteGirlLeia
  • I have got my books piled up in a room, all dusty.Aghanim
  • The data piled up, but no one systematized and analyzed it.AlanF_US
  • After the ceremony, the wedding party piled into a pub.sundown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of pile

as a noun

plural
piles

as a verb

past tense
piled
present participle
piling
third-person singular
piles
past participle
piled