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pile 1 P0301400 (pīl)n.1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap.2. Informal a. A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of work to do.b. A large amount of money: made a pile in the real estate boom.3. A nuclear reactor.4. A voltaic pile.5. A very large building or complex of buildings.6. A funeral pyre.v. piled, pil·ing, piles v.tr.1. a. To place or lay in a pile or heap: piled books onto the table.b. To load (something) with a heap or pile: piled the table with books.2. To add or increase to abundance or to a point of burdensomeness: piled homework on the students.v.intr.1. To form a heap or pile.2. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group: pile into a bus; pile out of a car.Phrasal Verbs: pile on1. To leap onto an existing pile of people, especially football players.2. To add or increase (something, such as criticism) abundantly or excessively. pile up1. To accumulate: Work is piling up.2. Informal To undergo a serious vehicular collision.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīla, pillar.]
 pile2pile 2 P0301400 (pīl)n.1. A heavy post of timber, concrete, or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.2. Heraldry A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.3. A Roman javelin.tr.v. piled, pil·ing, piles 1. To drive piles into.2. To support with piles.
[Middle English, from Old English pīl, shaft, stake, from Latin pīlum, spear, pestle.]
pile 3 P0301400 (pīl)n.1. a. Cut or uncut loops of yarn forming the surface of certain fabrics, such as velvet, plush, and carpeting.b. The surface so formed.2. Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.
[From Middle English piles(attested only in plural) downy hair, downy plumage, partly from Anglo-Norman peil, pil, hair, coat (as of a horse), cloth with a thick nap, and partly from Latin pilus, hair (Anglo-Norman, from Latin).]
piled adj.pile up vb (adverb) 1. to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate2. informal to crash or cause to crash n informal a multiple collision of vehicles Thesaurus| Verb | 1. |  pile up - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"amass, conglomerate, cumulate, accumulate, gatherincrease - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"backlog - accumulate and create a backlogaccrete - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion"drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow" | | 2. | pile up - arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"heap up, stack upgather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" | | 3. |  pile up - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"collect, compile, accumulate, amass, hoard, roll uprun up - pile up (debts or scores)corral - collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants"bale - make into a bale; "bale hay"catch - take in and retain; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater"fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan"fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulationsalt away, stack away, stash away, store, hive away, lay in, put in - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
pilenoun1. A group of things gathered haphazardly:agglomeration, bank, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mound, mountain, shock, stack, tumble.2. Informal. A great deal:abundance, mass, mountain, much, plenty, profusion, wealth, world.Informal: barrel, heap, lot, pack, peck.Regional: power, sight.3. Slang. A large sum of money:fortune, mint.Informal: bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum, wad.4. A usually permanent construction, such as a house or store:building, edifice, structure.verb1. To put into a disordered pile.Also used with up:bank, drift, heap, hill, lump, mound, stack.2. To make or become full; put as much into as can be held:charge, fill, freight, heap, load, pack.3. To fill to overflowing:heap, lade, load.4. To leave one's bed:arise, get up, rise, roll out.Informal: turn out.Idiom: rise and shine.phrasal verb
pile up1. To bring together so as to increase in mass or number:accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, roll up.2. Informal. To undergo wrecking:crash, smash.Informal: crack up.Translationspile1 (pail) noun1. a (large) number of things lying on top of each other in a tidy or untidy heap; a (large) quantity of something lying in a heap. There was a neat pile of books in the corner of the room; There was pile of rubbish at the bottom of the garden. 堆 堆2. a large quantity, especially of money. He must have piles of money to own a car like that. 大數目 大数目 verb to make a pile of (something); to put (something) in a pile. He piled the boxes on the table. 堆積 堆积ˈpile-up noun an accident or crash involving usually several vehicles. There has been a serious pile-up on the motorway, involving three cars and a lorry. 數輛汽車同時碰撞事故 数辆汽车同时碰撞事故pile up to make or become a pile; to accumulate. He piled up the earth at the end of the garden; The rubbish piled up in the kitchen. 堆積 堆积
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pile up1. To accumulate, gather, or increase over time. Please don't let your dirty dishes pile up—put them in the dishwasher or clean them yourself! With Deborah out sick all week, jobs have begun to pile up in our department.2. To put something into a pile or heap. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "pile" and "up." Just pile up your garden waste on the curb, and we will be around in the morning to collect it.3. To crash into or on top of one another. Because of the black ice on the roads, nearly a dozen cars piled up as they tried in vain to come to a stop.See also: pile, uppile something up 1. to crash or wreck something. Drive carefully if you don't want to pile the car up. The driver piled up the car against a tree. 2. to make something into a heap. Carl piled all the leaves up and set them afire. Please pile up the leaves.See also: pile, uppile up 1. Lit. [for things] to gather or accumulate. The newspapers began to pile up after a few days. Work is really piling up around here. 2. Fig. [for a number of vehicles] to crash together. Nearly twenty cars piled up on the bridge this morning.See also: pile, uppile up1. Accumulate, as in The leaves piled up in the yard, or He piled up a huge fortune. In this idiom pile means "form a heap or mass of something." [Mid-1800s] 2. Be involved in a crash, as in When the police arrived, at least four cars had piled up. [Late 1800s] See also: pile, uppile upv.1. To arrange something into a pile: We piled up the firewood in the garage. I piled the dirty dishes up in the sink.2. To accumulate: My bills piled up while I was in the hospital.3. To cause something to accumulate: The company is piling up debt with its risky investments. The team piled 40 points up in the first half of the game.4. To crash into each other; collide. Used especially of vehicles: Because of the thick fog, dozens of cars piled up on the freeway.See also: pile, upEncyclopediaSeepilepile up
Synonyms for pile upverb collect or gatherSynonyms- amass
- conglomerate
- cumulate
- accumulate
- gather
Related Words- increase
- backlog
- accrete
- drift
verb arrange into piles or stacksSynonymsRelated Words- gather
- pull together
- collect
- garner
verb get or gather togetherSynonyms- collect
- compile
- accumulate
- amass
- hoard
- roll up
Related Words- run up
- corral
- collect
- pull in
- scrape up
- scrape
- scratch
- come up
- chunk
- lump
- bale
- catch
- fund
- salt away
- stack away
- stash away
- store
- hive away
- lay in
- put in
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