A Quick and Simple Dictionary

pile

1. Noun.  (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
2. Noun.  The head of an arrow or spear.
3. Noun.  A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
4. Noun.  (heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
5. Verb.  (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
6. Noun.  (context, usually in plural) A hemorrhoid.
7. Noun.  A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
8. Noun.  (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
9. Noun.  A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
10. Noun.  A funeral pile; a pyre.
11. Noun.  A large building, or mass of buildings.
12. Noun.  A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
13. Noun.  A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta’s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
14. Noun.  (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
15. Noun.  (figurative) A list or league.
16. Verb.  (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.
17. Verb.  (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
18. Verb.  (transitive) To add something to a great number.
19. Verb.  (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
20. Noun.  Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.).
21. Noun.  The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.