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pile

Definition of pile (English)

noun

  1. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
    sumber: wordnet30
  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
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  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
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  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)
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  5. battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
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  6. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
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  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
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  8. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
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  9. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
    sumber: webster1913
  10. The head of an arrow or spear.
    sumber: webster1913
  11. 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.
    sumber: webster1913
  12. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
    sumber: webster1913

verb

  1. arrange in stacks
    • heap firewood around the fireplace
    • stack your books up on the shelves
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  2. press tightly together or cram
    • The crowd packed the auditorium
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  3. place or lay as if in a pile
    • The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested
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  4. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
    sumber: webster1913
  5. 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.
    sumber: webster1913