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Sheet Pile

Definition: Sheet Pile

Sheet Pile

Noun

1. A pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage.

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


Specialty Definitions: Sheet Pile

DomainDefinitions

Building & Civil Engineering

A wall of sheet piles, which may be a cantilever wall or anchored back at one or two levels to a dead man as a tied retaining wall. Source: European Union. (references)
 Sheet pilings are hot rolled products whose shape is such that they can be joined together by lateral joints or by means of special clamps and which, after driving into the ground, form part of walls or partitions. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A pile with a generally flat cross section, which may be meshed or interlocked with adjacent similar members to form a diaphragm, wall, or bulkhead, and designed to resist lateral earth pressure or to reduceground-water seepage. Syn:sheeting pile. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Sheet Pile

Synonyms: sheath pile (n), sheet piling (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sheet Pile

Specialty definitions using "sheet pile": anchor block, anchor wallCUTTER, WET MACHINEdead manroll skinnersheet pile wall, sheet takerWakefield sheet pile, web-machine tender, wet-press tender. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sheet Pile

DomainTitle

Books

  • Design of Sheet Pile Walls (Technical Engineering and Design Guides As Adapted from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, No. 15.) (reference)

  • Steel Sheet Pile Walls in Soft Soil (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Sheet Pile

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

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

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

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Expression: Sheet Pile

Expression using "sheet pile": sheet pile wall. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sheet Pile

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sheet pile

30

steel sheet pile

3

vinyl sheet pile

3

sheet pile driving

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sheet Pile

Language Translations for "sheet pile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

板樁 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

spunsvægjern (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings), spunsvæg (bulkhead, caisson, cofferdam, cortype cofferdam, curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), spunsjern (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

damwandstaal (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings), damwandplanken (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings), damwand (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), damplank (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

paalutuslevytuote (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

French

  

rideau de palplanches (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), paroi en palplanches (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), palplanche (sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

German

  

Spundwand (bulkhead), Spundbohlenwand (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), Spundbohle (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στοίβα φύλλων (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings), στοίβα ελασμάτων (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings), πασσαλοσανίδα (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), διάφραγμα πασσαλοσανίδων (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tavolone (plank), parete di palancole (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), paratia (bulkhead), palancolato (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), palancolata (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), palancola (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings), fila di palancole (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling), cortina di palancole (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTC, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seafood, seahorse, Sealab, seamless, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, seesaw, series, sheet, sheet feeder, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

シートパイル . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eetshay ilepay

   

Portuguese

  

estaca-prancha (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tablestaca (piling, sheet piling, sheet pilings). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spontplanka (curtain of sheet piling, cut off sheet piling, cut off wall of sheetpiles, sheet pile wall, sheet piling). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sheet Pile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-t"

-2 letters: eeliest, epeeist, epistle, pelites, sheltie, steelie, steeple.

-3 letters: elites, lethes, listee, pelite, pestle, seethe, spilth, stipel, tepees.

-4 letters: elite, epees, heels, heils, heist, helps, hilts, islet, istle, leets, lethe, lithe, peels, peise, peles, pelts, piles, piste, piths, plies, sheep, sheet, shiel, shlep, sleep, sleet, slept, slipe, slipt, speel, speil, spelt, spiel, spile, spilt.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: nephelites.

 

+2 letters: epithelizes, telepathies, telephonies.

 

+3 letters: nephelinites, telegraphies, whippletrees.

 

+4 letters: electrophiles, elephantiases, herpetologies, replenishment.

 

+5 letters: cephalometries, encephalitides, ephemeralities, epithelializes, hepatomegalies, heterophyllies, heteroploidies, nephelometries, preestablished, preestablishes, prehensilities, pyrheliometers, replenishments, steeplechasing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sheet Pile


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 65 65 74      50 69 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01100101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010000 01101001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#101 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#80 &#105 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0065 0065 0074      0050 0069 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374717186250757871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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