Dictionary Entry
pile
pile is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
- 2noun
A covering of hair or fur.
- 3noun
The head of an arrow or spear.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- 6transitive verb
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- 7noun
A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
- 8noun
A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
- 9noun
A funeral pile; a pyre.
- 10noun
A large building, or mass of buildings.
- 11noun
Same as Fagot, n., 2.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
- 14transitive verb
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.
- 15transitive verb
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- 16noun
a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- 17noun
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"
Synonyms
- 18noun
a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- 19noun
battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- 20noun
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
Synonyms
- 21noun
a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- 22noun
a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
"she made a bundle selling real estate"
"they sank megabucks into their new house"
- 23noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
- 24verb
place or lay as if in a pile
"The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
- 25verb
arrange in stacks
"heap firewood around the fireplace"
"stack your books up on the shelves"
- 26verb
press tightly together or cram
"The crowd packed the auditorium"
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