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    pile
    [pīl]
    noun
    pile (noun) · piles (plural noun) · atomic pile (noun) · atomic piles (plural noun)
    1. a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another:
      "he placed the books in a neat pile" · "tottering piles of dirty dishes"
      • informal
        a large amount of something:
        "he's making piles of money"
      • archaic
        a funeral pyre.
    2. a large imposing building or group of buildings:
      "a Victorian Gothic pile"
    3. a series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current.
    4. dated
      a nuclear reactor.
    verb
    pile (verb) · piles (third person present) · piled (past tense) · piled (past participle) · piling (present participle)
    1. place (things) one on top of another:
      "she piled all the groceries on the counter"
      • (be piled with)
        be stacked or loaded with:
        "his in-box was piled high with papers"
    2. (of a group of people) get into or out of a vehicle or space in a disorganized manner:
      "ten of us piled into the minibus" · "we all piled in and headed off to our mysterious destination" · "my students piled out of three cars"
      • (pile into)
        (of a vehicle) crash into:
        "60 cars piled into each other on I-95"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’.
    pile
    [pīl]
    noun
    pile (noun) · piles (plural noun)
    1. a heavy beam or post driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a structure.
    2. heraldry
      a triangular charge or ordinary formed by two lines meeting at an acute angle, usually pointing down from the top of the shield.
    verb
    pile (verb) · piles (third person present) · piled (past tense) · piled (past participle) · piling (present participle)
    1. strengthen or support (a structure) with piles:
      "an earlier bridge may have been piled"
    Origin
    Old English pīl ‘dart, arrow’, also ‘pointed stake’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’.
    pile
    [pīl]
    noun
    pile (noun) · piles (plural noun)
    1. the soft projecting surface of a carpet or a fabric such as velvet or flannel, consisting of many small threads:
      "the thick pile of the new rugs" · "deep-pile carpets"
    verb
    (-piled)
    pile (verb) · piles (third person present) · piling (present participle) · piled (past tense) · piled (past participle) · -piled (adjective)
    1. furnish with a pile:
      "a thick-piled carpet"
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘downy feather’): from Latin pilus ‘hair’. The current sense dates from the mid 16th century.
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    1. the soft projecting surface of a carpet or a fabric such as velvet or flannel, consisting of many small threads:
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