pile

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

(informal)A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

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 mass formed in layers.

a pile of shot

A funeral pile; a pyre.

(slang)A large amount of money.

He made a pile from that invention of his.

Đồng nghĩa: bundle, mint, small fortune

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

(often, transitive)(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

They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.

(transitive)To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

We piled the camel with our loads.

(transitive)To add something to a great number.

(transitive)(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

(transitive)(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.

Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums.

Đồng nghĩa: accumulate, pile up

(transitive)To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

(transitive)To give a pile to; to make shaggy.