pile
一堆,堆积,堆积物,堆
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Definitions
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- : an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers;a pile of bricks.
- : Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work.
- : a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
- : a lofty or large building or group of buildings: the noble pile of Windsor Castle.
- : Informal. a large accumulation of money: They made a pile on Wall Street.
- : a bundle of pieces of iron ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; fagot.
- : reactor.
- : Electricity. voltaic pile.
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piled, pil·ing.
- : to lay or dispose in a pile: to pile up the fallen autumn leaves.
Phrases
- pile into
- pile up
- make a bundle (pile)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The player whose card has a higher rank wins the turn and places both cards on the bottom of their pile.
At tables spread out around a room, citizen scientists of all ages and all backgrounds inspected piles of scat.
They’ll slice apples and cheese with aplomb, but if you use one to try and cut up a pile of cardboard, it’ll be dull by the end of that task.
Right now, those piles present a fire risk and are costly to manage.
It’s not like after 13 grains, it moves from a collection to a pile.
What you see is a massive, well-intentioned, legal junk pile.
The correspondent does a stand-up next to a burning pile of heroin and gets a taste of its effect.
Hitchcock leans toward me in a conspiratorial, almost lascivious, way and says, “Let's pile on the menace.”
Pre-sizing eliminates the opportunity to pile those taters too high.
Inside a box I could see a pile of whips, chains, ball gags, and hoods.
It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.
Again the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.