Look up: pile

1. Pile
   A long substantial pole of wood, concrete or metal, driven into the earth or sea bed to serve as a support or protection.
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2. pile
   [n] - informal: a large sum of money 2. [n] - a collection of objects laid on top of each other 3. [n] - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure 4. [n] - the yarn (as in a rug or velvet) that stands up from the weave 5. [v] - place or lay as if in a pile
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3. Pile
   A deep foundation. These are formed by creating a hole deep enough to locate solid sub-soil. The hole is usually filled with concrete and reinforced or a section of solid steel is installed.
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4. Pile
   A deep foundation. These are formed by creating a hole deep enough to locate solid sub-soil. The hole is usually filled with concrete and reinforced or a section of solid steel is installed.
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5. Pile
   A steel section driven to the ground to form part of a foundation system for a structure. (Sheet piling, a series of interlocking steel sections driven into the ground to retain material or water.)
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6. pile
   a slender structural member that is driven, jetted or otherwise embedded in the ground for the purpose of sustaining a load. Category: Various industries and crafts • a pointed stake or post Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • the tufts o...
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7. pile
   1 Raised, upper surface of carpeting or other textile such as velvet, also known as the nap, and made either by teasing or combing a woven surface, or by shearing looped ends that are woven or 'knotted' into a fabric. See also flat-weave. 2 The obverse die in coin-making.
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8. Pile
   Pile noun [ Latin pilus hair. Confer Peruke .] 1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. « Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile .»...
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9. Pile
   Pile noun [ Latin pilum javelin. See Pile a stake.] The head of an arrow or spear. [ Obsolete] Chapman.
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10. Pile
    Pile noun [ Anglo-Saxon pīl arrow, stake, Latin pilum javelin; but confer also Latin pila pillar.] 1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor wh...
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11. Pile
    Pile transitive verb To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. To sheet-pile , to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling , under 2nd Piling .
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12. Pile
    Pile noun [ French pile , Latin pila a pillar, a pier or mole of stone. Confer Pillar .] 1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. 2. A mass formed in layers;...
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13. Pile
    Pile transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Piled ; present participle & verbal noun Piling .] 1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to ...
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14. pile
    1. 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. 'Hills piled on hills.' . 'Life piled on life.' . 'The labour of an age in piled stones.' (Milton) ... 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or ov...
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15. pile
    heap noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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16. pile
    bundle noun a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); `she made a bundle selling real estate`; `they sank megabucks into their new house`
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17. pile
    noun a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
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18. pile
    noun 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`
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19. pile
    (pīl) hemorrhoid. in nucleonics, a chain-reacting fission device for producing slow neutrons and radioisotopes. sentinel pile a hemorrhoid-like thickening of the mucous membrane at the lower end of an anal fissure.
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20. Pile
    • (v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. • (n.) A funeral pile; a pyre. • (n.) The head of an arrow or spear. • (n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. • (...
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21. pile
    in textiles, the surface of a cloth composed of an infinite number of loops of warp threads, or else of an infinite number of free ends of either ... [5 related articles]
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22. pile
    in building construction, a postlike foundation member used from prehistoric times. In modern civil engineering, piles of timber, steel, or concrete ... [5 related articles]
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23. PILE
    1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. ['A Universal Comp...
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24. Pile
    In heraldry, a pile is one of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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25. PILE
    A wood, metal or concrete pole driven into the bottom. Craft may be made fast to a pile; it may be used to support a pier (see PILING) or a float
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