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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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A covering of hair or fur. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {To sheet-pile}, to make sheet piling in or around. See {Sheet piling}, under 2nd {Piling}. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. [1913 Webster] {To pile arms} {To pile muskets} (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms. [1913 Webster] Pileate 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. [1913 Webster] 3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A large building, or mass of buildings. [1913 Webster] The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as {Fagot}, n., 2. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The reverse of a coin. See {Reverse}. [1913 Webster] {Cross and pile}. See under {Cross}. {Dry pile}. See under {Dry}. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] {Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed. [1913 Webster] 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)