How to pronounce “pile”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• A mass formed in layers.
• 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
• [Verb]
• (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.

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