pile

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
    — I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.
  2. A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity). historical
  3. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.) countable,uncountable
  4. A hemorrhoid. plural-normally
  5. A dart; an arrow. obsolete
  6. A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process. informal
    — 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.
  7. A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).; A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile. historical
  8. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth. countable,uncountable
    — Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
  9. The head of an arrow or spear.
  10. A mass formed in layers.
    — a pile of shot
  11. 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.
    — 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.
  12. A funeral pile; a pyre.
    — Jove with a Nod, comply'd with her Deſire; / Around the Body flam'd the Funeral Fire; / The Pile decreas'd that lately ſeem'd ſo high, / And Sheets of Smoak roll'd upward to the Sky: [...]
  13. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
  14. A large amount of money. slang
    — He made a pile from that invention of his.
  15. A large building, or mass of buildings.
    — The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture; […]
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
    — The word "pile" is used specifically to mean the column of superposed electrodes, such as that of Volta or Zamboni.
  18. A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
  19. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
  20. The reverse (or tails) of a coin. obsolete
  21. A list or league
    — And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.
动词 v.
  1. To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. transitive
  2. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate often,transitive
    — They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
  3. To give a pile to; to make shaggy. transitive
  4. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. transitive
    — We piled the camel with our loads.
  5. To add something to a great number. transitive
    — But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.
  6. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up. transitive
  7. To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other. transitive
  8. To form a pile or heap. intransitive
    — Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
pile up
衍生词
atomic pile at the bottom of the pile at the top of the pile biopile book piles Bunsen pile cross and pile death pile dogpile dustpile facepile funeral pile gangpile go the whole pile helical pile hook-and-pile fastener junkpile leafpile make a pile micropile mispile monopile muscular pile nuclear pile overpile pig pile piledrive piledriver pile-driving pileless pilement pile of crap pile of cunt pile of poo pile of shit piler pile shoe pilewise pilework pileworm pily polypile puppy pile repile rockpile rubble pile sandpile shagpile shitpile slash pile slushpile slush pile snowpile stockpile subpile three-pile turdpile unpile uppile wastepile woodpile Zamboni pile pile bridge pile driver pile dwelling pile in pile it high, sell it cheap pile on pile on the pounds pile out pile Pelion on Ossa pile up pile cap pile engine pile plank pneumatic pile screw pile sheet pile deep pile carpet knotted pile velvet pile thermoelectric pile thermopile voltaic pile

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”).
词源 2
From Middle English pile, from Old English pīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.
词源 3
Apparently from Late Latin pilus. Doublet of pilus.
词源 4
From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.
词源 5
From French pile (“battery”), with the pronunciation adapted to the existing English word pile. Doublet of Etymology 1, which may have influenced the sense development by emphasizing the stack (“pile”) out of which early batteries were made.
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