Pile

Definition: Pile

Pile

Noun

1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.

2. (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"; "it must have cost plenty".

3. Informal: a large sum of money.

4. Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta.

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

6. The yarn (as in a rug or velvet) that stands up from the weave.

7. A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy.

Verb

1. Arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves".

2. Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium".

3. Place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

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Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pile

Assemblage

Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta;accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness).

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Exaggeration

Verb: exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify; (expand); overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous.

Fear

Inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise aprehensions; be in a daze, bulldoze; faze, feeze; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry " wolf," disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony.

Intention

Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.

Interment

Noun: interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation.

Money

Double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate; long bit, short bit; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; thousand dollars, grand.

Production

Edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.

Prosperity

Rise in the world, get on in the world; work one's way, make one's way; look up; lift one's head, raise one's head, make one's fortune, feather one's nest, make one's pile.

Redundancy

Choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish; (squander).

Roughness

Wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff.

Vehicle

Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane.

Crosswords: Pile

French (battery, heap, maul, pier, pile, stack, stake), Italian (batteries), Norwegian (flit), Serbo-Croatian (chick, chicken), Turkmen (cocoon).

It's all been replaced by a pile of corpses (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

He could be behind the wall, inside the water barrel, beneath a pile of leaves, up in the tree, squatting down behind the car, concealed in a hollow, or crouched behind any one of a hundred bushes (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

If you think your nephew, Hans, is ugly now wait till I turn him into a pile of splinters (The Nutcracker Prince; writing credit: E.T.A. Hoffmann; Patricia Watson)

When you put your hand in a pile of goo that a minute ago was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do. (Patton; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North)

You want me to salute that pile of walking pus (Day of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero)

Bills pile up sky high (Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler); performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Put a girl on the corner so you can make a pile (Buffalo Stance; performing artist: Neneh Cherry)

Stacking the honeys in a pile and putting em on file (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)

So you pile some more on your plate ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

Help me build a mansion from my little pile of clay (She's a Lady; performing artist: Tom Jones)

Even in a pile of manure, a flower will grow. (references; author: unknown)

Pile ou face Nelly (1973)

Fla. Pile Drivers; Tampa (1898)

Washington Navy Yard Pile Driving (1897)

The Big Pile (1985)

Pile ou face (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Man-Made Woven Pile and Chenille Fabrics Export Supplies (reference)

• Southern Concrete Pile Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Man-made Woven Pile and Chenille Fabrics in Peru (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Man-Made Woven Pile and Chenille Fabrics Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Man-Made Woven Pile and Chenille Fabrics: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• File... Don't Pile!: For People Who Write: Handling the Paper Flow in the Workplace or Home Office (reference)

• Pile Design and Installation Using Ultimate Design Methods (reference)

• Pooh's Leaf Pile (reference)

• The Big Leaf Pile (Big Red Reader) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Paper Pile Quarterly (reference)

• Pile Face (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gut Pile (reference)

• Pig Pile (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Pile of Rock: Live [LIVE] (reference)

• Pile of Skulls (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW4988 7-1/2" Wool Polishing Pad 1-1/2" Pile (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A wooden table containing: a ladle full of beans, a sliced loaf of brown bread, a bunch of bananas, muffins, small potatoes, a head of cabbage, an ear of corn, a pile of cereal, yams, apples, a nectarine and some spaghetti. See also AV-3905 and AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A heron takes a rest on a pile of stone crab traps. Credit: Fisheries.

An aerial view of a vinyl sheet pile structure, another shoreline protection structure tested. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Surface run off, waste pile at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Gravel pile injection near old dam site. Credit: Gary Kramer.

A pile of rocks with some scenic mountains in the background in the Agua Fria National Monument. Credit: Beth Perault.

National River Cleanup Trash Pile. Credit: Becky Brown.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 6, Bordeaux, France. : Quartermaster wood pile. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Trash pile, receiving hospital, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The sugar coated pile / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral

This pile was about five feet high

Her hand went blindly out and put the little bag of sugar on the pile in her arm.

By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Pure cotton remains the main material for the pile fabric. (references)

The name of the game has been cash flow management; the distributor having to pile up inventory stock, distribute it and get back the money invested on time, to roll it back into the business. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pile": a pile ♦ aerated pile method ♦ atomic pile ♦ caisson pile ♦ chip pile ♦ compost pile ♦ Cross and pile ♦ don't pile it on! ♦ drive in a pile ♦ Dry pile ♦ funeral pile ♦ galvanic pile ♦ Guide pile ♦ Gunpowder pile driver ♦ junk pile ♦ log pile ♦ long pile plush ♦ make a pile ♦ make a pile of money ♦ make one a pile of books ♦ make one's a pile of books ♦ make ones pile ♦ make one's pile ♦ muck pile ♦ nuclear pile ♦ pile a table with books ♦ pile arms ♦ pile bent ♦ pile bridge ♦ pile building ♦ pile cap ♦ pile carpet ♦ pile driver ♦ pile dwelling ♦ pile engine ♦ pile equation ♦ pile fabric ♦ pile foundation ♦ pile high ♦ pile in ♦ pile in everyone! ♦ pile in! ♦ pile into ♦ pile it on ♦ pile mooring ♦ pile of bricks ♦ pile of logs ♦ pile of rubble ♦ pile of scrap ♦ pile of stones ♦ pile of wood ♦ pile off ♦ pile on ♦ pile on the agony ♦ pile out ♦ pile out of ♦ pile plank ♦ pile rug ♦ pile shoe ♦ pile the table with food ♦ pile together ♦ pile up ♦ pile up against ♦ pile up expenses ♦ pile up the agony ♦ pile up wealth ♦ pneumatic pile ♦ screw pile ♦ sculptured pile ♦ sheath pile ♦ sheet pile ♦ sheet pile wall ♦ shell pile ♦ textile floor covering with pile ♦ thermoelectrical pile ♦ tie on a pile ♦ to pile arms ♦ to pile muskets ♦ to pile up graphs ♦ trash pile ♦ tubular cased pile ♦ voltaic pile ♦ Volta's pile ♦ wit concrete pile. Additional references.

Beginning with "pile": pile-driver, pile-driver operator, pile-drivers, pile-driving, pile-dwellings, pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap, pile-it-high, pile-of-bricks, pile-up, pile-ups, pile-weaving, Pile-worn.

Ending with "pile": deep-pile, shag-pile, short-pile.

Afrikaans

stapel (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, stack), skare (accumulation, are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, set), menigte (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude), massa (accumulation, crowd, heap, lump, mass, multitude), klomp (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, set, stack), aambei (haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid, rhoid). (various references)

Albanian

push (bloom, Catkin, flue, fluff, fuzz, nap, pubescence), pirg (aggregation, bank, clamp, cumulus, drift, heap, heaps of, huddle, hump, jumble, mountain, stack), pilë (cell, tails), turrë drush (woodpile), bateri (battery, broadside), bina (barn), drushtë, dyndem (invade, pile into, press, throng), grumbull (abatis, aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile up, stack, stamp mill), grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, get together, heap, hoard, mass, pool, rally, stack, unite), grup ndërtesash, mal (fell, heap, heaps of, mountain), bëj turrë, turrë (heap, roll), vë shtylla, reaktor bërthamor (reactor), shtyllë (backbone, bankseat, bearing, column, mainstay, pillar, pole, post, staff, stanchion, standard, stock, tower), stivë (congeries, heap), stivoj, thek (awn, Brown, fall in flakes, fringe, Pierce, put on speed, stamen, strike, tassel, toast), thekë (awn, fringe, stamen, tassel), tog (cluster, heap, mass), mori (army, host, immenseness, immensity, multiplicity, multitude, muster, myriad, oodles, plurality, profusion, regiment, scad, scads, variety). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كومة (bank, heap, mound, pack, pilau, shock, stack), ‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ‏كدس (accumulate, amass, cumulate, get together, heap, heap up, overstock, pile up, stack), ‏مجموعة مباني ضخمة, ‏وبر النسيج, ‏تراكم (accumulate, accumulation, bank, bulk, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, piling up, press), ‏زغب (coma, fluff, fuzz, hairy, nap, plumule, pubescence, quilt), ‏زئبر زغب (fuzz), ‏عدد كبير من السيارات, ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏ركام (bank, cumulus, drift, heap, jumble, mess, moraine, morass, mound, stuff), ‏ردم (fill), ‏دعم بركائز, ‏باسور (piles). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вълна (budge, fur, rush, sea, wave), пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, tin, vapor, vapour, wad, wampum), погребална клада, пух (down, eiderdown, fluff), батерия (battery), мъх (bristle, down, fluff, fuzz, moss, nap, pubescence), наблъсквам се, накамарявам, натоварвам догоре, натрупвам (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank, congest, cumulate, deck, garner, heap, huddle, lumber, pyramid, shovel up, stack, store), натъпквам се (overfeed, stodge, surfeit), пилон (mast, pier, pylon, tower), отрупвам (clutter, heap, heap smth. up, heap up, overwhelm, ply, smother, snow under), състояние (capital, case, condition, fettle, fig, fortune, means, plight, position, posture, repair, shape, state, substance, train, way), грамада (mass, monster), грамадно здание, група здания, камара (chamber, heap, house, mass), кол (pale, picket, piquet, pole, spile, upright), косъм (hair, hairspring), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), купчина (batch, clamp, cluster, heap, huddle, mass, ruck, stack, tumble), трупам (cluster, congregate, gather, heap, hive, lay up, roll up, run, run up, settle, shovel, store, treasure up), ядрен реактор, стълб (column, pier, pillar, pole, post, riser, shaft, staff, stanchion, standard, verge), обратна страна на монета. (various references)

Chinese 

碼 (a weight, number, stack, yard), 砢 (a heap), 垛 (battlement, target), 樁 (item, stake, stump), 一堆 , 堆 (Bing, heap, heaps, Piled, Piles, stack, stacks). (various references)

Czech

stoh (mow, Rick, stack), nahromadit (bank up, congest, heap up, pile up, shovel up, store), kupa (cumulus, knoll, stack), kapitál (capital, principal), kùl (pale, picket, stake), hromada (dump, heap, host, mound, stack, welter), hranice (bonfire, border, borderline, bound, boundary, confines, frontier, limit, line, precinct, stake, stint), blok (bloc, block). (various references)

Danish

mængd (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude). (various references)

Dutch

stapel (accumulation, crazy, crowd, heap, insane, mad, mass, multitude, nuts, stack), menigte (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude), massa (accumulation, crowd, heap, lump, mass, multitude), hoop (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, good great group, group, heap, herd, hope, mass, multitude, pack, set, stack), drom (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude), boel (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, quantity). (various references)

Esperanto

stako (heap, stack), hemoroido (haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid), amaso (crowd, heap, mass, multitude). (various references)

Faeroese

stakkur (column, heap, pillar, stack), rúgva (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, set, stack), mongd (accumulation, crowd, heap, lump, mass, multitude, quantity), hópur (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, group, heap, herd, lump, mass, multitude, pack, set, swarm). (various references)

Farsi 

کومه (Congeries, Heap, Rick, Stack), خواب پارچه , سد (Barrier, Dam, Dike, Sluice, Stank, Stoppage), ستون (Column, Jamb, Pier, Pillar, Shaft, Staple), ستون لنگرگاه , ستون پل , توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), اندوختن (Accumulate, Acquire, Hive, Reserve, Rollup, Save, Store), کرک (Fuzz, Pubes, Wool), یک تارموی , کومه کردن (Rick, Stack), کپه (Congeries, Heap, Mass, Ruck), موج شکن (Breakwater, Bulwark, Pier), مقدارزیاد (Jorum, Stack), پرزقالی وغیره , پارچه خزنما, توده کردن (Aggregate, Amass, Cumulate, Heap, Hill, Lump, Pack, Ruck, Shock, Stack, Stockpile). (various references)

Finnish

kasa (accumulation, crowd, heap, lot, mass, multitude, stack), nukka (nap). (various references)

French

tas (piece), pilotis (pile bent, roupp of piles), pile (pier), foule, empiler (pile up), amas. (various references)

Frisian

skelf (heap, stack). (various references)

German

Haufen (accumulation, aggregate, batches, bunch, bundle, cloud, cluster, crowd, flock, gang, heap, huddle, load, lot, mass, mob, mound, multitude, slew, stack, throng), Stapel (accumulation, batch, crowd, depot, heap, mass, mound, multitude, pack, stack, staple, stocks), Pfahl (caber, pale, palisade, picket, pier, pole, post, prop, stake, stilt, support), stoß (barge, batch, belch, biff, blast, blow, brunt, bump, burst, butt, dig, gasp, hit, impact, jab, jog, joint, jolt, kick, knock, mound, nudge, poke, prod, punch, push, put, rush, selvage, shock, shove, shunt, stab, stack, stope, stroke, throw, thrust, tilt, tremor, volley), stapeln (dump, pile up, stack, store), Menge (accumulation, amount, assemblage, bulk, bundle, crowd, deal, forest, heap, host, load, lot, mass, measure, mob, multitude, plenty, portion, quantity, quantum, quiverful, set, squash). (various references)

Greek 

συσσωρεύω (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, heap, hoard, mass), στοιβάζω (cram, crowd), στοιβάδα (heap, stack), στοίβα (gantry, scantling, stillage(Australia and South Africa)). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצובה (pyramid, stack), מצבור (dump, hoard, mass), לערום (accumulate, amass, heap, stack), לגדוש (heap, overcrowd, surfeit), לגבב (heap, lumber), תל (heap, hillock, knoll, mound), תפוח (apple, ball, heap, puffed out, swollen, tumid), כמות גדולה (deal, mort, raft), כור אטומי (nuclear reactor, reactor), כור (furnace, kiln, melting pot), גל (heap, mound, wave), גודש (abundance, affluence, glut, plenitude, profusion, redundance, redundancy, repletion, surfeit), גבב (neap), צבור (accumulated, community, conglomerated, congregation, gathered, heap, piled, public). (various references)

Hungarian

rakás (batch, charging, clump, conglomerate, heap, heaps of, lump, pack, parcel, passel, stack, tuck), cölöp (pale, peg, pole, post, spile, stake, stilt), szárazelem (dry battery, dry cell, dry pile), nyaláb (band, bar, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, fagot, parcel, sheaf, truss), nagy vagyon (great fortune), nagy épület, máglya (bale-fire, bonfire, pigsty, stack, stake), karó (crampon, crampoon, pale, paling, picket, post, spike, spile, spud, stake, stick), köteg (band, bunch, bundle, fascicle, packet, parcel, sheaf, truss), halom (accumulation, batch, clamp, clump, congeries, conglomerate, cop, dump, heap, hillock, mass, mound, Peck, stack, tump), halmaz (agglomeration, aggregation, clump, concrete, conglomerate, conglomeration, set), fegyvergúla, csomó (batch, bed, bunch, bundle, clod, clot, clump, cluster, gnarl, hitch, kink, knag, knar, knob, knot, node, nodule, nub, nugget, parcel, Peck, snag, snarl, snick, tie, tuft, wart), bolyhosság (fuzziness, nap, napping, pubescence), épületcsoport. (various references)

Icelandic

safnast saman (accumulate, heap, pile up, stack), safna (accumulate, heap, pile up, stack), hlaðast upp (accumulate, heap, pile up, stack). (various references)

Indonesian

pancang (boundary pole, pole, stake), tumpuk (heap, stack), gunung-gunungan (hill, hillock, imitation mountain), gundukan (heap, rand), bumbun (heap, shady, shelter for hunters). (various references)

Italian

pelo (coat, fur, hair), palo (pale, pole, post, shaft, spar, stake, stilt), folla (accumulation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, host, huddle, mass, mob, multitude, rabble, throng), accatastare (bank on, stack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重ね (course, heap, layer, set, suits), 積み重ね (accumulation), ピストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt), パイプ役 (mediator, pile driver), 棒杙 (stake), 棒杭 (stake), 山 (climax, critical point, heap, mountain), 堆積 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいせき (capacity, leaving one's seat, moraine, volume), ピロティ (stilt), パイル , ぼうぐい (stake), つみかさね (accumulation), かさね (course, heap, layer, set, suits), やま (climax, critical point, heap, mountain). (various references)

Korean 

더미 (heap, heaps, Piles, stack, stacks). (various references)

Manx

sheane hoanney, peeley (fort, pale, tower), peel, fynney (down, film on the eye, fur, hair of animal), bleaynagh (haemorrhoidal), bleayn (haemorrhoid). (various references)

Papiamen

monton (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude). (various references)

Pig Latin

ilepay.(various references)

Polish

masa (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude). (various references)

Portuguese

pilha (accumulation, bulk, cell, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, rick, ruck, stack), empilhar (accumulate, amass, bulk, heap, pile up, rick, stack up). (various references)

Romanian

pilot (airman, man at the wheel, navigator, pilot, steerer), pilã electricã (cell, voltaic battery), pilã (file, intercession), palplanşã, pãr (bristle, hair, head, lock, pear, pear tree, pilosity), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), îngrãmãdi (accumulate, acerbate, aggregate, assemble, clump, cram, crowd, drift, garner, gather, heap, huddle, jam, lumber, lump, pack, pile up, put in a heap, squeeze, throng), acumula (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, augment, garner, heap, hoard, stockpile, store), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop), clãdire mare, construcţie (architecture, build, building, built, construction, design, edifice, fabric, frame, framework, make up, structure, style, texture), fixa stâlpi în, grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), hemoroizi (haemorrhoid), împovãra (burden, cumber, encumber, glut, oppress, overload, pack, weigh down, weight), morman (cob, drift, heap, Hill, mass, mound, stack), teanc (bale, heap, mound, sheaf, shoal), nodul (nodule), stivã (clamp, column), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), maldãr (bundle, heap, ream). (various references)

Russian 

кипа (bale, pack, stack). (various references)

Scottish

cruach (a heap, a pile, build into stacks, stack), càrn (a horning. The Gaelic seems a confusion between còrn, a pile, a sledge, heap of stones). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pretrpati (clutter up, congest, crowd, glut, overcrowd, overload, swamp), podupirati (atlas, brace, second, support), vlas (hair), vlakno (fiber, fibre), stub (column, pier, pillar, pole, post, pylon), složiti (agree, arrange, fold, get along, put together, set, stack), naslagati (pile up, stack), naslaga (deposit, layer, sediment), nagomilati (accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, garner, heap, hill, hoard, lay up, pile up, stock, stock up, stockpile), malja (hair), kolac (boomer, pale, picket, spile, stake), imetak (possession, property, worth), hrpa (accumulation, batch, heap), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, flock, heap, huddle, mob, pileup, plump, stack, swarm, throng), dlaka (braid, hair, pelage, whisker). (various references)

Spanish

montón (bagful, bank, batch, caboodle, clamp, congeries, cumulus, deluge, drift, dump, heap, huddle, load, mass, mound, mountain, pack, packet, parcel, Peck, raft, ream, scads, slew, stack), pilote (stilt), pelo (coat, hair, head of hair, locks), estaca (cudgel, cutting, hint, pale, paling, peg, picket, pole, post, spur, stake, stick). (various references)

Swedish

stapel (stack), påle (dead man, pale, pole, post, stake, stanchion, upright), hög (clamp, elevated, exalted, heap, high, high pitched, hillock, huddle, lofty, loud, mound, tall), trave, trava upp, lugg (fringe, nap). (various references)

Turkish

pil (battery, cell), kazık döşemek, büyük ve muhteşem yapı, basur memesi, hav (down, floss, fuzz, nap), hidroelektrik pil, ince tüy (flue, fuzz, pappus), istif etmek (hoard, put up, stack), kırık dökük şey (rattletrap), küme (aggregate, aggregation, bank, clamp, cloud, clump, cluster, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, division, family, group, heap, league, mass, stack, tuft), kat (coat, coating, deck, fall, flat, floor, fold, lap, layer, multiple, ply, stair, storey, story), katlı (creased, Decker, fold, multiple, storeyed, storied), atom reaktörü (atomic pile, chain reactor, nuclear reactor), kazık çakmak (drive in a stake, pale), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, loading, onus, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), kuştüyü (down, feather), servet (abundance, affluence, assets, effects, fortune, gold, havings, means, possessions, property, riches, shekels, substance, treasure, wealth), stok yapmak (buy forward, stock, stock up, stockpile), stoklamak (buy up, forestall, garner, hoard, lay in, lay up, stock, stock up, stockpile), tüy (down, feather, fluff, hair, nap, plume, quill, villus), temel kazığı, tepeleme doldurmak (heap), yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), yığmak (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter, clutter up, congest, conglomerate, drift, dump, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pack, pile on, pile up, put up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), kazık (deceit, pale, peg, picket, post, ramp, stake). (various references)

Turkmen 

topbak (a lot of, heap), dцs (heap). (various references)

Ukrainian

стояк (buttress, prop, riser, stake, stilt, strut, stud), складати в купу (clamp), травинка, товпитися (besiege, cluster, crowd, jostle, mob, overcrowd), купа (accumulation, bale, barrel, batch, clamp, cluster, congeries, cumulus, deal, heap, huddle, lump, stack, swarm, throng), вістря (barb, edge, nib, peak, prick, spearhead, spire), навантажувати (burden, charge, weight), забивати палі, паля. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thảm, tài sản toà nhà đồ sộ, mặt sấp đồng tiền, lông măng, lông mịn, chồng (consort, mate), cọc (palaver, wattle), cừ cột nhà sàn. (various references)

Welsh

pentyrru (accumulate, amass, heap), pentwr (heap), ysgafnu (heap), cruglwyth (heap). (various references)

gurum. (various references)

acervi, acervis, acervo, acervorum, acervos, acervum, acervus, aggerem, aggeres, aggeribus, aggeris, aggerum, aggestum, collectum, collectus, congerie, congeriem, congeries, construatur, constructa, constructum, construens, construxerunt, construximus, construxitque, massa, multitudo, pila, pilae, pilam, pilis, pilus, strue, struem, strues, struices, turba. (various references)

pil. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "pile": pilea, pileate, pileated, piled, pilei, pileless, pileous, piles, pileum, pileup, pileups, pileus, pilewort, pileworts. (additional references)

Words ending with "pile": compile, eolipile, eolopile, recompile, sandpile, spile, stockpile, thermopile, unpile, uppile, woodpile. (additional references)

Words containing "pile": antiepilepsy, antiepileptic, antiepileptics, compiled, compiler, compilers, compiles, eolipiles, eolopiles, epilepsies, epilepsy, epileptic, epileptically, epileptics, epileptiform, epileptogenic, epileptoid, huipiles, postepileptic, recompiled, recompiles, sandpiles, spiled, spiles, stockpiled, stockpiler, stockpilers, stockpiles, thermopiles, unpiled, unpiles, uppiled, uppiles, woodpiles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apilu, ipl, iplet, Iplib, ipole, Paille, pailo, palap, palee, paleo, palex, palle, pallee, Pavle, Pawle, peale, Peele, peile, pele, pelee, Peljee, pelle, pelve, pfile, pfla, phile, phili, phle, piale, pibe, Piel, Piela, piele, pielet, pife, pifle, piila, pil, Pila, pilae, Pilai, pilao, pilce, pilee, pilen, pilet, pilex, pilf, pilg, pili, Pilic, pilk, Pilkem, pille, pillen, Pilley, pilli, pillo, pillu, pilo, pilou, pilov, Pilsea, Pilsen, Pilsey, pilt, pilz, pime, piqe, pive, piwe, pixe, pixle, pize, pjl, ple, plei, plev, pli, plia, plie, pliea, pliec, plieh, Plielle, plien, pliet, plike, plime, pline, plite, Pliz, Pmle, Polge, polje, polle, prile, psile, psilo, puile, Pule, pulen, puli, pulje, Pulle, Pullee, pyle, uile. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lipe, plie.

-1 letter: lei, lie, lip, pie.

-2 letters: el, li, pe, pi.

+1 letter: impel, peril, pilea, piled, pilei, piles, pixel, plied, plier, plies, slipe, speil, spiel, spile.

+2 letters: aliped, alpine, aplite, clypei, dimple, diplex, diploe, dipole, dispel, elapid, epical, epilog, espial, fipple, hirple, impale, impels, kelpie, limped, limper, limpet, lineup, lipase, lipide, lipped, lippen, lipper, lisped, lisper, lupine, megilp, nipple, palier, pelite, pelvic, pelvis, pencil, penial, penile, pensil, perils, pickle, piddle, piffle, piglet, pileum, pileup, pileus, pilfer, pilled, pilose, pilule, pimple, pineal, pinole, pintle, piolet, pixels, pizzle, plaice, pleiad, plicae, pliers, plisse, plutei, poleis, police, polies, polite, prelim, rimple, ripely, ripple, simple, sliped, slipes, speils, spiels, spiled, spiles, spinel, splice, spline, stipel, swiple, tipple, triple, unpile, uppile, wimple.