pile 뜻

명사 (Noun)PLpilesSUF-ile

All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

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

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

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.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

동사 (Verb)SGpilesPRpilingPT, PPpiled

(transitive) 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.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.

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문장 중간에 사용됨
- As football linebackers pile on a quarterback in a blitz, the newspaper editorialist heaped sarcasm onto the president.
- This synopsis saves me having to wade through a pile of text books.
- On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
문장의 시작에 사용됨
- Piles were sunk into the river to support the bridge.
문장의 끝에서 사용
- There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.

Definition of pile in English Dictionary