pile
A mass of things heaped togetherA mass of things heaped together; a heap.
» Bills are starting to pile up.
Счета начинают накапливаться.
Рахунки починають накопичуватися.
Значення
значень: 21(збірне)A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
Haufen, Stoß, Stapel
ку́чаkúča, гру́даgrúda, сто́пкаstópka
ку́паkúpa
(розмовне)A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.
A mass formed in layers.
a pile of shot
A funeral pile; a pyre.
(сленг)A large amount of money.
He made a pile from that invention of his.
a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
A large building, or mass of buildings.
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
гальвани́ческий элеме́нтgalʹvaníčeskij elemént
A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
сва́яsvája
a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
A list or league
The head of an arrow or spear.
наконе́чникnakonéčnik
Приклади
речень: 220Bills are starting to pile up.
Рахунки починають накопичуватися.
ruСчета начинают накапливаться.
Tom has piles of money.
Том має купу грошей.
ruУ Тома куча денег.
deTom schwimmt im Geld.
Whose pile of junk is this?
ruЧья это груда хлама?
The bags were piled up behind him.
Tom separated the items into three piles.
Переклади
мов: 9За значеннями 1
За значеннями 4
За значеннями 3
Походження
From Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”). From MiFrom Middle English pyle, from Old French pile, from Latin pīla (“pillar, pier”).
From Middle English pile, from Old English pīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.
Apparently from Late Latin pilus. Doublet of pilus.
From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.
From French pile (“battery”), with the pronunciation adapted to the existing English word pile. Doublet of Etymology 1, which may have influenced the sense development by emphasizing the stack (“pile”) out of which early batteries were made.
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Форми
множина: pilesСиноніми
синонімів: 45- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave:nap
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure:spilepilingstilt
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other:heapmoundagglomeratecumulationcumulus
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit):bundlebig bucksmegabucksbig money
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta:voltaic pilegalvanic pile
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs):down