Definizione monolingua

pile

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

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

pile (plural piles)

1. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
2. The head of an arrow or spear.
3. 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.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe^[1], edition 10th edition, published 1864, Chapter VI, page 68:

     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.

4. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

pile

1. (colloquial) just, exactly
2. (colloquial) dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack

Definizione dizionario pile

	mucchio
	heap
	Grande numero o quantità di cose non poste in pila.
	A great number or large amount of things not placed in a pile.

elemento

	accatastare
	Mettere diverse cose in pila.
	To put together several things in one pile; to arrange in stacks.

	ammucchiare
	Mettere diverse cose in pila.
	To put together several things in one pile; to arrange in stacks.

folla

	accalcarsi
	Comprimersi o stiparsi insieme.
	To press tightly together or cram.

	ammassarsi
	Comprimersi o stiparsi insieme.
	To press tightly together or cram.

	grande quantità
	Grande numero o quantità di cose non poste in pila.
	A great number or large amount of things not placed in a pile.

	impilare
	Mettere diverse cose in pila.
	To put together several things in one pile; to arrange in stacks.

	montagna
	Grande numero o quantità di cose non poste in pila.
	A great number or large amount of things not placed in a pile.

	sacco
	Grande numero o quantità di cose non poste in pila.
	A great number or large amount of things not placed in a pile.

	stipare
	Comprimersi o stiparsi insieme.
	To press tightly together or cram.

	stiparsi
	Comprimersi o stiparsi insieme.
	To press tightly together or cram.

accumulare

affluenza

aggiungere

ammassare

ammasso

ammonticchiare

batteria

catasta

cumulo

cùmulo

fola

massa

mazza

palafitta

palo

pelo

pila

pilastro

raccogliere

Altri significati:

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

A mass of things heaped together; a heap

group or list of related items

The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.

a pile (of something)

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

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.

fine or short hair

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

(usually in plural) A hemorrhoid.

A large building, or mass of buildings.

pile (fabric, nuclear reactor, structural support, etc.)

A funeral pile; a pyre.

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.

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

pile (of things)

galvanic pile

A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

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.

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

(transitive) To add something to a great number.

stake of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth

(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.

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

The head of an arrow or spear.

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

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)