| 单词 | pile |
| 释义 | pile (once / 137 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n 5n A pile is a heap of stuff that keeps accumulating, like the dirty laundry in the back of your closet, or Uncle Scrooge’s money. Pile can be used as a noun or a verb. If you pile rocks on top of each other, you will eventually have a...pile of rocks. Unlike the word stack, pile implies that your heap of stuff is fairly messy. It can also mean cram. When eight people pile into a car with only five seats, they’re likely to be pretty much squashed. WORD FAMILYpile: piled, piles, piling, pilous+/piling: pilings/pilous: depilous USAGE EXAMPLESWe kick a path through piles of confetti from room to room. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The national referendum result was narrow but Remain votes piled up in big cities, affluent suburbs and Scotland. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Atlanta piled up 323 yards in the first two quarters, and also benefited from a 46-yard pass interference penalty against Roman Harper. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a collection of objects laid on top of each other Syn|Hypo|Hyper agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound compost heap, compost pile a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhilla heap of dung or refuse scrapheappile of discarded metal shocka pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field slagheappile of waste matter from coal mining etc stackan orderly pile funeral pyre, pyrewood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite woodpilea pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel stockpilea storage pile accumulated for future use hayrick, haystack, ricka stack of hay accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 2n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude 3n a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) Syn|Hyper big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks money wealth reckoned in terms of money 4v place or lay as if in a pile The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested Hyper lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location 5v arrange in stacks Syn|Hypo|Hyper heap, stack rick pile in ricks cordstack in cords arrange, set up put into a proper or systematic order 6v press tightly together or cram 2Syn|Hyper jam, mob, pack, throng crowd, crowd together to gather together in large numbers 1n fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) Syn|Hypo|Hyper down lanugo the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation hair a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss 2n the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave 3for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction Syn|Hyper nap thread, yarn a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving n battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta 4Syn|Hyper galvanic pile, voltaic pile battery, electric battery a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series n a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper piling, spile, stilt sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage column, pillar (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure n a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy Syn|Hyper atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor nuclear reactor, reactor (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements |
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