The meaning of PILE is a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load.
- To form a heap or pile. 2. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group: pile into a bus; pile out of a car.
PILE meaning: 1. objects positioned one on top of another: 2. a mass of something that has been placed…. Learn more.
From French pile (“battery”), with the pronunciation adapted to the existing English word pile. Doublet of Etymology 1, which may have influenced the sense development by emphasizing the stack (“pile”) out of which early batteries were made.
PILE definition: an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other. See examples of pile used in a sentence.
Pile definition: A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap.
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
A pile of things is a quantity of things that have been put neatly somewhere so that each thing is on top of the one below.
to accumulate or store (often fol. by up): to pile up money; squirrels piling up nuts against the winter. to cover or load with a pile: He piled the wagon with hay.
A pile is a heap of stuff that keeps accumulating, like the dirty laundry in the back of your closet, or Uncle Scrooge’s money. Pile can be used as a noun or a verb.