pile

Meaning

1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
2. (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
3. A mass formed in layers.
4. A funeral pile; a pyre.
5. (slang) A large amount of money.
6. A large building, or mass of buildings.
7. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
8. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
9. A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
10. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
11. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
12. A list or league

good deal

tidy sum

gather together

wood pile

chain reactor

galvanic pile

atomic reactor

quite a little

small pile

voltaic pile

take along

be piled up

charcoal kiln

in a heap

piled up high

give someone the whole amount

push-down list

push-down queue

push-down stack

set to keep ready

upright bar

a lot of

full measure

large quantity

mass of people

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paɪl/

From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”).

Cognate with Dutch

pijl

Cognate with German

Pfeil

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