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Substantiivi
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- 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.
- A mass formed in layers.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- 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.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- A list or league
Verbi
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- 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.
- And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.
- a pile of shot
- The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
- The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture [...]
- It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor[...]
- Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
- 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.
- We piled the camel with our loads.
- 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.
- Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
- galvanic pile, voltaic pile
- atomic pile
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | piled |
| Imperfekti | piled |
| Partisiipin preesens | piling |
| Monikko | piles |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | piles |