pile meaning
EN
[paɪl] [-aɪl] 
US WPile
- Pile may refer to:
FR pile 
- NounPLpilesSUF-ile
- (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (obsolete) A series of electrochemical cells stacked vertically in a column.
- The word "pile" is used specifically to mean the column of superposed electrodes, such as that of Volta or Zamboni.
- (chiefly in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.
- (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.
- A mass formed in layers.
- a pile of shot
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- 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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- (figuratively) A list or league.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.).
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
- VerbSGpilesPRpilingPT, PPpiled
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Across from it is “Danaë,” in which a giant blackened depetaled sunflower emerges from a pile of lead books.
- This synopsis saves me having to wade through a pile of text books.
- On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Piles were sunk into the river to support the bridge.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pile in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "pile" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.