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[ pahy-ling ] / ˈpaɪ lɪŋ /
nouna mass of building piles considered collectively. a structure composed of piles. Origin of pilingFirst recorded in 1400–50, piling is from the late Middle English word pylyng; see pile2, -ing1 Words nearby pilingPilgrim's Progress, pili, piliferous, piliform, pilikia, piling, Pílion, Pilipino, pili torti, pill, pillage Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pilingEvidence is piling up that as men do more of the caregiving, violence against women falls. How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST But the students chanced it, piling into three buses for the dangerous journey back home. Abducted, Tortured, Indoctrinated: The Tale of a Teen Who Escaped ISIS|Yusuf Sayman|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST But it only barely makes up for the distress of watching the season of piling on. ‘Downton Abbey’ Finale Review: The Depressing Demise of a Once-Great Show|Kevin Fallon|February 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Heck, even the Pope is piling on, warning against greed as a “new idolatry.” How Pope Francis’s Management Strategies Could Fix Wall Street|Chris Lowney|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The reporting errors out of Boston after the marathon blasts are piling up—and so is the finger-wagging on Twitter. Boston Marathon Bombing Media Errors Pile Up, as Does the Outrage|Michael Moynihan|April 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST An old submarine filled with explosives was used to blow up the piling beside the Mole at Zeebrugge. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights|Kelly Miller The task of piling up the wall was progressing rapidly, and it seemed to the boy that the stones were all falling from a distance. Boy Scouts in the Northwest|G. Harvey Ralphson He was busy pulling things off of the shelves and piling them up on the counters. A House Party with the Tucker Twins|Nell Speed Then I made them cut wood, and piling the coral above it, set it on fire. The Coral Island|R.M. Ballantyne I have a special motive for piling up examples of the use of symbols in dreams. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis|Sigmund Freud
British Dictionary definitions for piling
nounthe act of driving piles a number of piles a structure formed of piles 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 Words related to pilingmountain, pyramid, chunk, lump, accumulation, hill, stockpile, hunk, mass, jumble, assortment, ocean, stack, quantity, pot, wad, bundle, load, assemble, collect |