English Dictionary

pile

/paɪl/

noun

A mass of things heaped together; a heap. / (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. / A mass formed in layers.

I have a pile of books on my desk.

意味（1）

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.

意味（2）

(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

意味（3）

A mass formed in layers.

a pile of shot

意味（4）

A funeral pile; a pyre.

Jove with a Nod, comply'd with her Deſire; / Around the Body flam'd the Funeral Fire; / The Pile decreas'd that lately ſeem'd ſo high, / And Sheets of Smoak roll'd upward to the Sky: …

意味（5）

(slang) A large amount of money.

He made a pile from that invention of his.

意味（6）

A large building, or mass of buildings.

The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture […]

意味（7）

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.

意味（8）

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

The word pile is used specifically to mean the column of superposed electrodes, such as that of Volta or Zamboni.

意味（9）

(architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.

意味（10）

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

意味（11）

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

意味（12）

A list or league

Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.