Found 3 items, similar to Pile.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: pile bumbun, gubal, gundukan, gunung-gunungan, membumbun, pancang, tumpuk, tumpukan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pile pile n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: heap, mound, cumulus] 2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “he made a mint on the stock market”; “it must have cost plenty” [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal , great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little , raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum , wad, whole lot, whole slew] 3: a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); “she made a bundle selling real estate”; “they sank megabucks into their new house” [syn: bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money] 4: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) [syn: down] 5: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: voltaic pile , galvanic pile] 6: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: spile, piling, stilt] 7: the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; “for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction” [syn: nap] 8: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy [syn: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor ] pile v 1: arrange in stacks; “heap firewood around the fireplace”; “stack your books up on the shelves” [syn: stack, heap] 2: press tightly together or cram; “The crowd packed the auditorium” [syn: throng, mob, pack, jam] 3: place or lay as if in a pile; “The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pile Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilum javelin. See Pile a stake.] The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster] Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[=i]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin; but cf. also L. pila pillar.] 1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. [1913 Webster] Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. [1913 Webster] Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles. Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile. Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake. Pile plank (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling. Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic. Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure. [1913 Webster] Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilus hair. Cf. Peruke.] 1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. [1913 Webster] Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo["o]l.) A covering of hair or fur. [1913 Webster] Pile \Pile\, v. t. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. [1913 Webster] To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling. [1913 Webster] Pile \Pile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Piled; p. pr. & vb. n. Piling.] 1. 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. “Hills piled on hills.” --Dryden. “Life piled on life.” --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. [1913 Webster] To pile arms To pile muskets (Mil.), to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms. [1913 Webster] Pile \Pile\, n. [F. pile, L. pila a pillar, a pier or mole of stone. Cf. Pillar.] 1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. [1913 Webster] 2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. [1913 Webster] 3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A large building, or mass of buildings. [1913 Webster] The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. [1913 Webster] 6. (Elec.) 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. [1913 Webster] Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile. [1913 Webster] 7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. [1913 Webster] Cross and pile. See under Cross. Dry pile. See under Dry. [1913 Webster]