OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10898

pile

/paɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cúmulo • hacina • haza • montón • pila • rima • rimero • ruma • tambache • tauca • tonga • tongada
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.
conjunto
A large building, or mass of buildings.
The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture; […]
The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
pila
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.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 10900

pile

/paɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pila
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 10899

pile

/paɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apilar • hacinar
To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.