| 单词 | pileup |
| 释义 | pileupor pile-up[ pahyl-uhp ] / ˈpaɪlˌʌp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pileup ON THESAURUS.COM nouna massive collision of several or many moving vehicles. an accumulation, as of work, chores, or bills. a rough or disorderly falling of people upon one another, as in a football game. Origin of pileupFirst recorded in 1825–35; noun use of verb phrase pile up Words nearby pileuppileous, pileous gland, piles, pile shoe, pileum, pileup, pileus, pilewort, pilfer, pilferage, pilgarlic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for pileuppile up verb (adverb)to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate informal to crash or cause to crash noun pile-upinformal a multiple collision of vehicles Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with pileuppile up Accumulate, as in The leaves piled up in the yard, or He piled up a huge fortune. In this idiom pile means “form a heap or mass of something.” [Mid-1800s] Be involved in a crash, as in When the police arrived, at least four cars had piled up. [Late 1800s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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