The meaning of PILE is a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load.

PILE definition: 1. objects positioned one on top of another: 2. a mass of something that has been placed…. Learn more.

1. To form a heap or pile. 2. To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group: pile into a bus; pile out of a car.

Pile, a type of deep foundation Screw piles, used for building deep foundations Pile bridge, structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles Pile lighthouse, a type of skeletal lighthouse, used primarily …

a long column of timber, concrete, or steel that is driven into the ground to provide a foundation for a vertical load (a bearing pile) or a group of such columns to resist a horizontal load from earth or …

PILE definition: an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other. See examples of pile used in a sentence.

There are 15 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pile, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

PILE meaning: 1 : a group of things that are put one on top of another often + of; 2 : a very large amount of something

A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides.

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