A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
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
A mass formed in layers.
a pile of shot
A funeral pile; a pyre.
A large amount of money.
He made a pile from that invention of his.
A large building, or mass of buildings.
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
A list or league
(often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
We piled the camel with our loads.
To add something to a great number.
(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
A dart; an arrow.
The head of an arrow or spear.
A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
(usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
To give a pile to; to make shaggy.