Pile

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilus hair. Cf. {Peruke}.]
     1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like;
        also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and
        velvet.
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              Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper.
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     2. (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pile \Pile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Piling}.]
     1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to
        collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often
        with up; as, to pile up wood. "Hills piled on hills."
        --Dryden. "Life piled on life." --Tennyson.
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              The labor of an age in piled stones.  --Milton.
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     2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or
        overfill; to load.
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     {To pile arms} {To pile muskets} (Mil.), to place three guns
        together so that they may stand upright, supporting each
        other; to stack arms.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pile \Pile\, v. t.
     To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with
     piles.
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     {To sheet-pile}, to make sheet piling in or around. See
        {Sheet piling}, under 2nd {Piling}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilum javelin. See {Pile} a stake.]
     The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[imac]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin;
     but cf. also L. pila pillar.]
     1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into
        the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor
        where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a
        pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam,
        etc.
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     Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.
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     2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or
        subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed
        palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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     {Pile bridge}, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on
        piles.
  
     {Pile cap}, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of
        piles.
  
     {Pile driver}, or {Pile engine}, an apparatus for driving
        down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with
        suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or
        steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy
        mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.
  
     {Pile dwelling}. See {Lake dwelling}, under {Lake}.
  
     {Pile plank} (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in
        sheet piling. See {Sheet piling}, under {Piling}.
  
     {Pneumatic pile}. See under {Pneumatic}.
  
     {Screw pile}, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by
        rotation aided by pressure.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pile \Pile\, n. [F. pile, L. pila a pillar, a pier or mole of
     stone. Cf. {Pillar}.]
     1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of
        stones; a pile of wood.
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     2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
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     3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden.
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     4. A large building, or mass of buildings.
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              The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as {Fagot}, n., 2.
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     6. (Elec.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two
        dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks
        of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them,
        for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called
        {Volta's pile}, {voltaic pile}, or {galvanic pile}.
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     Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of
           apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity,
           or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an
           apparatus for generating a current of electricity by
           the action of heat, usually called a thermopile.
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     7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The
        reverse of a coin. See {Reverse}.
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     {Cross and pile}. See under {Cross}.
  
     {Dry pile}. See under {Dry}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. {Pill} a medicine.]
     (Med.)
     The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and
     lower part of the rectum which are technically called
     {hemorrhoids}. See {Hemorrhoids}.
  
     Note: [The singular {pile} is sometimes used.]
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     {Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pile
       n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: {heap},
             {mound}, {cumulus}]
       2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
          "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
          money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
          have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
          deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
           {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite
          a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
          sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
       3: a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she
          made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks
          into their new house" [syn: {bundle}, {big bucks}, {megabucks},
           {big money}]
       4: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or
          deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain
          dogs) [syn: {down}]
       5: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the
          earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: {voltaic
          pile}, {galvanic pile}]
       6: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into
          the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: {spile},
           {piling}, {stilt}]
       7: 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" [syn: {nap}]
       8: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to
          generate energy [syn: {atomic pile}, {atomic reactor}, {chain
          reactor}]
       v 1: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace";
            "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: {stack}, {heap}]
       2: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
          auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {jam}]
       3: place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the
          students until the parents protested"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  460 Moby Thesaurus words for "pile":
     abscess, abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration,
     aggregate, aggregation, amass, amassment, angina, angina pectoris,
     anthill, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke,
     architecture, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, assault, assemblage,
     assemble, assortment, atherosclerosis, atomic pile,
     atrial fibrillation, attack, auricular fibrillation, back, backlog,
     bag, bags, baluster, balustrade, banister, bank, bank up, bankroll,
     barrel, base, batch, bed sore, beriberi heart, bestraddle,
     bestride, blade, blain, bleb, blister, board, boil, bomb, boodle,
     bottle, box, bract, bracteole, bractlet, breeder reactor, bricks,
     bristle, bristles, brush, bubo, budget, building, bulla, bundle,
     bunion, burden, can, canker, canker sore, capillament, carbuncle,
     cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock,
     cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, caryatid,
     chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, chancre, chancroid, charge,
     chilblain, choke, cilium, climb on, coat, cock, cold sore, collect,
     collection, colonnade, column, commissariat, commissary,
     concentration, congenital heart disease, congeries, conglomeration,
     considerable, construct, construction, cor biloculare, cor juvenum,
     cor triatriatum, cornucopia, coronary, coronary insufficiency,
     coronary thrombosis, cotyledon, crate, crowd in, cumulate,
     cumulation, dado, deal, deposit, diastolic hypertension, die, down,
     drift, dump, dune, edifice, eiderdown, embankment, encased heart,
     endocarditis, enter, erection, eschar, establishment, exaggerate,
     exit, extrasystole, fabric, fast pile, fatty heart, feel, felon,
     fester, festering, fever blister, fibroid heart, fill, finish,
     fistula, flag, flask-shaped heart, fleece, floral leaf, floss,
     flue, fluff, foliole, footstalk, fortune, freight, frond,
     frosted heart, fur, furnace, furuncle, furunculus, fuzz, gathering,
     get in, get into, get on, glomeration, glume, go aboard,
     go on board, gobs, good deal, good sum, grain, granular texture,
     great deal, gumboil, hair, hairy heart, haycock, haymow, hayrick,
     haystack, heap, heap up, heaps, heaps of gold, heart attack,
     heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure,
     hemorrhoids, heterogeneous reactor, high blood pressure, hill,
     hoard, holdings, homogeneous reactor, hop in, horsehair, house,
     hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, intermediate pile,
     inventory, involucre, involucrum, ischemic heart disease, jack,
     jam in, jumble, jump in, jump on, kibe, knub, lade, lamina, larder,
     large sum, lashings, lattice, leaf, leaflet, leave, leg, lemma,
     lesion, ligule, lint, load, loads, loot, lot, lots, lump, mane,
     mass, material, materials, materiel, mess, millions, mint,
     mint of money, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, molehill,
     money, mound, mount, mountain, mow, much, munitions,
     myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis,
     myovascular insufficiency, nap, needle, neutron factory,
     newel-post, nub, nuclear furnace, oceans, oodles, overwhelm,
     ox heart, pack, pack away, pack in, packaged house, packet, pale,
     palisade, palpitation, papula, papule, paralytic stroke,
     paronychia, paroxysmal tachycardia, parulis, peck, pedestal,
     pedicel, peduncle, peg, pelt, pericarditis, petal, petechia,
     picket, pier, pilaster, pile in, pile it on, pile out, pile up,
     piles, piling, pillar, pimple, pine needle, pit, plenitude, plenty,
     plethora, plinth, plush, plutonium reactor, pock, pocket, pole,
     polyp, post, pot, potful, power of money, power reactor,
     power-breeder reactor, prefab, prefabrication, premature beat,
     pretty penny, protuberance, provisionment, provisions,
     pseudoaortic insufficiency, pubescence, pubic hair,
     pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pustule, pyramid,
     pyre, quantity, queen-post, quite a little, radioactive waste,
     raft, rafts, rations, reactor, reactor pile, repertoire, repertory,
     rheumatic heart disease, rick, rising, rods, roll, round heart,
     ruck, sack, scab, scads, sclerosis, seed leaf, sepal, setula,
     shaft, shag, shank, ship, shock, sight, skyscraper, slew, slews,
     slow pile, snowdrift, socle, soft chancre, sore, spate, spathe,
     spear, spile, spire, stack, stack up, stacks, staff, stake, stalk,
     stanchion, stand, standard, stellarator, stem, stigma, stipula,
     stipule, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, stony heart, store,
     stores, stow, stroke, structure, sty, subbase, superabundance,
     superstructure, supplies, supply, supply on hand, suppuration,
     surbase, surface, surface texture, swansdown, swelling,
     tachycardia, texture, thistledown, thousands, thrombosis, tidy sum,
     tons, tower, treasure, treasury, tricuspid insufficiency,
     tricuspid stenosis, trunk, tubercle, tumulus, turtle heart, ulcer,
     ulceration, upright, uranium reactor, varicose veins, varix,
     ventricular fibrillation, wad, wads, wale, wealth, weave, welt,
     wheal, whelk, whitlow, whole slew, windrow, woof, wool, wound
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  PILE
       
          1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators.
          Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more
          like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally
          stored on disk).  Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial
          Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.
       
          ["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry
          G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83,
          pp.279-282].
       
          2.  ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis",
          P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].
       
          (1999-06-04)