Definition of pile

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  • pile is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
  • pile is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
  • pile is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8

Definition of pile

  • the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave (noun)

    Examples

    1. for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction

    Synonyms

    1. nap
  • a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. big bucks
    2. big money
    3. bundle
    4. megabucks
  • arrange in stacks (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. heap
    2. stack
  • fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. down
  • a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. piling
    2. spile
    3. stilt
  • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. batch
    2. deal
    3. flock
    4. good deal
    5. great deal
    6. hatful
    7. heap
    8. lot
    9. mass
    10. mess
    11. mickle
    12. mint
    13. mountain
    14. muckle
    15. passel
    16. peck
    17. plenty
    18. pot
    19. quite a little
    20. raft
    21. sight
    22. slew
    23. spate
    24. stack
    25. tidy sum
    26. wad
  • a collection of objects laid on top of each other (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. agglomerate
    2. cumulation
    3. cumulus
    4. heap
    5. mound
  • press tightly together or cram (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. jam
    2. mob
    3. pack
    4. throng
  • a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. atomic pile
    2. atomic reactor
    3. chain reactor
  • battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. galvanic pile
    2. voltaic pile
  • place or lay as if in a pile (verb)

    Examples

    1. The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested

See definition of pile in Merriam Webster