Result from Foreign Dictionaries (9 entries found)
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. [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.
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\, 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\, 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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pile
n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn:
{pile}, {heap}, {mound}, {agglomerate}, {cumulation},
{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"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
{batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal},
{hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint},
{mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
{pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
{stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
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: {pile}, {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}, {pile}]
5: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the
earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: {voltaic
pile}, {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: {pile},
{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:
{pile}, {nap}]
8: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to
generate energy [syn: {atomic pile}, {atomic reactor},
{pile}, {chain reactor}]
v 1: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace";
"stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: {stack}, {pile},
{heap}]
2: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {pile}, {jam}]
3: place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the
students until the parents protested"
From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]:
pile /pil/
1. pile; stack
2. battery (of electrovoltiac cells)
3. pier (of wall or structure)
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