Piled

Definition: Piled

Piled

Adjective

1. Thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books"; "heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high".

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

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

Synonyms: Piled

Crosswords: Piled

Well, Mr. Hearst built a palace of brick and mortar, and little wars and corpses piled high (RKO 281; writing credit: Richard Ben Cramer; Thomas Lennon)

The way the evidence has piled up against me, I can't say I blame them much (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; writing credit: Sidney Buchman)

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Books

• Piled Higher and Deeper (reference)

• The design of piled foundations (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Shells containing oyster spat raised by the Oyster Recovery Partnership are piled up waiting to be moved to a permanent oyster bed off of the Severn River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Landing craft and barges bring fresh supplies to a Guadalcanal beach, probably in December 1942 or January 1943. The LCP in the center, just beyond the barge full of piled boxes, is from USS American Legion (AP-35). One of the LCVs in the background is from USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27). Credit: NAVY.

View on board, looking forward over the boat deck from the secondary conn, while the ship was at the New York Navy Yard after her last overhaul, 29 May 1942. Crude # "1" in white circle (center) marks the location of the 5"/25 loading practice machine. Other notable items include: boats and boat cradle in foreground; four Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplanes atop the catapults; crated food piled by the after smokestack; and USS Marblehead (CL-12) at left. Credit: NAVY.

At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 28 November 1942. USS Chicago (CA-30) and the barge YF-388 are in the left background. Note supplies piled on Saint Louis' foredeck. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Credit: NAVY.

Logs piled in the mill yard. Keno, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption number 61. Credit: Library of Congress.

Logs leveled by 1938 hurricane piled at sawmill near Warren, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmstead. Lewis County, Idaho. Hay piled in front barn was to be chopped and blown into barn and used during winter for stock feed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Melons piled in harvest market near Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brush cleared, timber thinned, and wood piled. Eastern Shore land use project, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old boards and rusty nails piled up where they might be dangerous. Farm of Mr. Theodore German. North Branford, Connecticut (safety film). Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Even a porter passing, with a barrow piled with luggage, seemed so realistic that one was tempted to applaud

Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds

At one end of the room, in a recess, were a number of barrels, piled one upon another, containing bundles of official documents

Elsewhere the prisoners lay in the open air in the prison yards, piled one upon another

Junk piled up in a yard

Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "piled": be piled up ♦ piled foundation. Additional references.

Beginning with "piled": piled-high, piled-up.

Ending with "piled": cross-piled, deep-piled, end-piled, flock-piled, re-piled, sheet-piled, snow-piled, Three-piled.

Albanian

me push (downy, nappy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, gaudy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, overwrought, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry). (various references)

Chinese 

堆 (Bing, heap, heaps, PILE, Piles, stack, stacks). (various references)

Danish

paelevaerk (bent, pile bent, piled fendering, roupp of piles, staging, timber staging), underfoering i jernbeton funderet paa paelevaeg (secant piled reinforced concrete bridge), stålplatform på fundamentspæle (piled steel platform), opstablede lugedaeksler (piled-up hatch covers), mole (breakwater, dyke, embankment, groin, groyne, jetty, landing stage, mole, pier, piled fendering, sea wall, spur, staging, timber staging, wharf), langhåret fløjl (long piled fustian), fendervaerk (dolphin, piled dolphin), duc d'albe (dolphin, pile mooring, piled dolphin), afsnit af samleledning (sewer partially piled). (various references)

Dutch

waar dynamische ankers niet bevredigend functioneren,wordt met beperkt succes gebruik gemaakt van verzwaarde ankers (piled type anchors have been used with limited success, where dynamic anchors do not perform acceptably), stalen paalplatform (piled steel platform), remmingwerk (fender, piled fendering, timber staging), opgestapelde luikdeksels (piled-up hatch covers), op een gecombineerde boorpalenprefabpalenwand gefundeerde gewapend-betonnen brug (secant piled reinforced concrete bridge), gedeeltelijk onderheid collecteurriool (sewer partially piled), fundering op palen op stuit (end bearing piled foundation), ducdalf (dolphin, duc d'albe, mooring dolphin, piled dolphin). (various references)

French

plate-forme en acier sur piles (piled steel platform), passage inferieur en beton arme fonde sur pieux secants (secant piled reinforced concrete bridge), panneaux empilés d'écoutille (piled-up hatch covers), virole (piled foundation), velours trame long poil (long piled fustian), fondation sur pieux (pile foundation, piled foundation), estacade (piled fendering), duc d'albe (pile mooring, piled dolphin), dans des cas où les ancrs dynamiques ne peuvent jouer leur rôle d'une manière acceptable,des piles d'ancrage ont été utilisées avec quelque succès (piled type anchors have been used with limited success), collecteur sur pieux de fondation (sewer partially piled). (various references)

German

häufte an, geschichtet (laminated, stratified). (various references)

Greek 

στοιβαγμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מונח בערמות, מעורם (heaped, stacked), צבור (accumulated, community, conglomerated, congregation, gathered, heap, pile, public). (various references)

Hungarian

bolyhos (cottony, fluey, fluffy, frieze, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, nappy, pubescent). (various references)

Indonesian

tertumpuk (hoarded, piled up), ketumpukan (accidentally piled on), bersilang (crossed, piled up in a crisscross way). (various references)

Italian

ponte su pali sovrapposti in cemento armato (secant piled reinforced concrete bridge), palo d'ormeggio (dolphin, pile mooring, piled dolphin), velluto a lungo pelo (long piled fustian), steccato (fence, palings, picket fence), duc d'Albe (dolphin, piled dolphin), dove gli ancoraggi dinamici non operano in modo accettabile,sono stati usati,con successo limitato,ancoraggi del tipo palificato (piled type anchors have been used with limited success, where dynamic anchors do not perform acceptably), collettore fognario in parte a spinta (sewer partially piled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重なる (lie on top of one another, to be piled up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したづみ (goods piled beneath, lowest social strata), のづみ (piled out in the open), つみかさねる (to accumulate, to be piled up), かさなる (lie on top of one another, overlap each other, to be piled up), ちょうじょうたる (excellent, piled up, placed one upon another, splendid), ちょうじょう (excellent, one's elderor superior, peak, piled one upon another, splendid, summit, top). (various references)

Korean 

쌓는 (Lapped). (various references)

Manx

carnaneagh (cumuliform, cumulus, heaped, piled up). (various references)

Pig Latin

iledpay.(various references)

Portuguese

macio como lã ou veludo, em montão, com pêlos, amontoado (congeries, huddle). (various references)

Romanian

pufos (downy, fluffy, fuzzy, soft), scãmos (fibrous, fuzzy, nappy). (various references)

Russian 

ворсистый (fluffy, nappy, shaggy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nagomilan (accrete, aggregate, unfunded). (various references)

Spanish

puente sobre pilotes de hormigón armado (secant piled reinforced concrete bridge), terciopelado de largo pelo (long piled fustian), en los casos en los que los anclajes dinamicos no funcionan de forma aceptable se han utilizado, con algun exito, anclajes de tipo pilote (piled type anchors have been used with limited success, where dynamic anchors do not perform acceptably), duque de Alba (dolphin, pile mooring, piled dolphin), colector sobre pilotes de fundación (sewer partially piled). (various references)

Swedish

pålad stålplattform (piled steel platform). (various references)

Ukrainian

ворсовий, звалений у купу, загострений (acuminate, arrow-headed, cuspidate, ogival, pointed, spiky). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "piled": compiled, recompiled, spiled, stockpiled, unpiled, uppiled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Piled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apiled, iplet, Iplib, pailid, Palud, Pelado, pfile, phile, piced, pided, piede, Piel, piele, pielet, pifed, piila, piked, Pilai, pilce, pilee, pilen, pilet, pilex, pili, Pilic, Pilkem, pille, pillet, pilov, piolet, pited, pixed, pized, pledt, pleed, plie, pliea, pliec, plieh, pliet, pliked, plized, prilled, psile, psillid, puile, Pulido, pulod. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: plied.

-1 letter: deil, deli, diel, idle, lied, lipe, pied, pile, pled, plie.

-2 letters: del, die, dip, eld, led, lei, lid, lie, lip, ped, pie.

-3 letters: de, ed, el, id, li, pe, pi.

+1 letter: aliped, dimple, diplex, diploe, dipole, dispel, elapid, limped, lipide, lipped, lisped, piddle, pilled, pleiad, sliped, spiled.

+2 letters: alipeds, applied, bipedal, blipped, clipped, clupeid, delphic, despoil, dimpled, dimples, diploes, dipoles, dispels, elapids, euploid, flipped, helipad, hirpled, impaled, implead, implied, implode, lapides, leporid, lipides, mispled, nippled, oedipal, palsied, pedicel, pedicle, periled, pickled, piddled, piddler, piddles, piebald, piffled, piloted, pimpled, plaided, plained, plaited, pleiads, plinked, podlike, policed, predial, prilled, replied, rimpled, rippled, slipped, speiled, spieled, spilled, spindle, spliced, splined, spoiled, taliped, tepidly, tippled, tripled, unpiled, upfield, uppiled, wimpled.