Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pile
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a heap of things laid or gathered upon one another (a pile of leaves). 2 a a large imposing building (a stately pile). b a large group of tall buildings. 3 colloq. a a large quantity. b a large amount of money; a fortune (made his pile). 4 a a series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current. b = atomic pile. 5 a funeral pyre. --v. 1 tr. a (often foll. by up, on) heap up (piled the plates on the table). b (foll. by with) load (piled the bed with coats). 2 intr. (usu. foll. by in, into, on, out of, etc.) crowd hurriedly or tightly (all piled into the car; piled out of the restaurant). Phrases and idioms pile arms hist. place (usu. four) rifles with their butts on the ground and the muzzles together. pile it on colloq. exaggerate. pile on the agony colloq. exaggerate for effect or to gain sympathy etc. pile up 1 accumulate; heap up. 2 colloq. run (a ship) aground or cause (a vehicle etc.) to crash. pile-up n. colloq. a multiple crash of road vehicles. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L pila pillar, pier, mole 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a heavy beam driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a superstructure. 2 a pointed stake or post. 3 Heraldry a wedge-shaped device. --v.tr. 1 provide with piles. 2 drive (piles) into the ground etc. Phrases and idioms pile-driver a machine for driving piles into the ground. pile-dwelling a dwelling built on piles, esp. in a lake. Etymology: OE pil f. L pilum javelin 3. n. 1 the soft projecting surface on velvet, plush, etc., or esp. on a carpet; nap. 2 soft hair or down, or the wool of a sheep. Etymology: ME prob. f. AF pyle, peile, OF poil f. L pilus hair
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, dart, quill, pole driven into the ground, from Old English pīl, from Latin pilum javelin Date: 12th century a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load, a wedge-shaped heraldic charge usually placed vertically with the broad end up, 3. a target-shooting arrowhead without cutting edges, an ancient Roman foot soldier's heavy javelin, II. transitive verb (~d; piling) Date: 15th century to drive ~s into, III. verb (~d; piling) Etymology: Middle English, from 4~ Date: 14th century transitive verb to lay or place in a ~ ; stack, 2. to heap in abundance ; load , to collect little by little into a mass, intransitive verb to form a ~ or accumulation, to move or press forward in or as if in a mass ; crowd , IV. noun Etymology: Middle English pier of a bridge, stack, heap, from Middle French pille pier of a bridge, from Latin pila pillar Date: 15th century 1. a. a quantity of things heaped together, a heap of wood for burning a corpse or a sacrifice, any great number or quantity ; lot, a large building or group of buildings, a great amount of money ; fortune, reactor 3b, V. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French peil, pil hair, coat with thick nap, from Latin pilus hair Date: 15th century a coat or surface of usually short close fine furry hairs, a velvety surface produced by an extra set of filling yarns that form raised loops which are cut and sheared, ~less adjective VI. noun Etymology: Middle English ~z, plural, from Medieval Latin pili, perhaps from Latin pila ball Date: 15th century a single hemorrhoid, hemorrhoids ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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