Definition of pile

"pile" in the noun sense

1. pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

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"

3. pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit

"she made a bundle selling real estate"

"they sank megabucks into their new house"

4. down, pile

fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

5. voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile

battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

6. pile, spile, piling, stilt

a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

7. pile, nap

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"

8. atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

"pile" in the verb sense

1. stack, pile, heap

arrange in stacks

"heap firewood around the fireplace"

"stack your books up on the shelves"

2. throng, mob, pack, pile, jam

press tightly together or cram

"The crowd packed the auditorium"

3. pile

place or lay as if in a pile

"The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

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Quotations for pile

A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitants, to ruin runs. [ Young ]

Mark her majestic fabric; she's a temple
Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine;
Her soul's the Deity that lodges there;
Nor is the pile unworthy of the God. [ Dryden ]

When wrapt in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. [ Thomas Campbell ]

Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are persons who flatter themselves that the size of their works will make them immortal. They pile up reluctant quarto upon solid folio, as if their labors, because they are gigantic, could contend with truth and heaven! [ Junius ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

pile in Scrabble®

The word pile is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters pile:

PILE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word pile

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The 92 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In pile

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pile in Words With Friends™

The word pile is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters pile:

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Word Growth involving pile

Shorter words in pile

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