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I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.
Billy Campbell

Meaning of "pile" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PILE

Via Old French from Latin pīla stone pier.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PILE

pile  [paɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pile is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pile in English.

WHAT DOES PILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pile in the English dictionary

The first definition of pile in the dictionary is a collection of objects laid on top of one another or of other material stacked vertically; heap; mound. Other definition of pile is a large amount of money. Pile is also a large amount.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PILE

PRESENT

Present
I pile
you pile
he/she/it piles
we pile
you pile
they pile
Present continuous
I am piling
you are piling
he/she/it is piling
we are piling
you are piling
they are piling
Present perfect
I have piled
you have piled
he/she/it has piled
we have piled
you have piled
they have piled
Present perfect continuous
I have been piling
you have been piling
he/she/it has been piling
we have been piling
you have been piling
they have been piling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I piled
you piled
he/she/it piled
we piled
you piled
they piled
Past continuous
I was piling
you were piling
he/she/it was piling
we were piling
you were piling
they were piling
Past perfect
I had piled
you had piled
he/she/it had piled
we had piled
you had piled
they had piled
Past perfect continuous
I had been piling
you had been piling
he/she/it had been piling
we had been piling
you had been piling
they had been piling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will pile
you will pile
he/she/it will pile
we will pile
you will pile
they will pile
Future continuous
I will be piling
you will be piling
he/she/it will be piling
we will be piling
you will be piling
they will be piling
Future perfect
I will have piled
you will have piled
he/she/it will have piled
we will have piled
you will have piled
they will have piled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been piling
you will have been piling
he/she/it will have been piling
we will have been piling
you will have been piling
they will have been piling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would pile
you would pile
he/she/it would pile
we would pile
you would pile
they would pile
Conditional continuous
I would be piling
you would be piling
he/she/it would be piling
we would be piling
you would be piling
they would be piling
Conditional perfect
I would have pile
you would have pile
he/she/it would have pile
we would have pile
you would have pile
they would have pile
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been piling
you would have been piling
he/she/it would have been piling
we would have been piling
you would have been piling
they would have been piling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you pile
we let´s pile
you pile
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to pile
Past participle
piled
Present Participle
piling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PILE


bile
baɪl
facile
ˈfæsaɪl
file
faɪl
freestyle
ˈfriːˌstaɪl
hairstyle
ˈhɛəˌstaɪl
hostile
ˈhɒstaɪl
I´ll
aɪl
isle
aɪl
juvenile
ˈdʒuːvɪˌnaɪl
kyle
kaɪl
lifestyle
ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl
meanwhile
ˈmiːnˌwaɪl
mile
maɪl
mobile
ˈməʊbaɪl
profile
ˈprəʊfaɪl
smile
smaɪl
style
staɪl
textile
ˈtɛkstaɪl
tile
taɪl
while
waɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILE

pilcrow
pile arms
pile cap
pile dwelling
pile it on
pile on the agony
pile shoe
pile up
pile-driver
pile-up
pilea
pileate
pileated
pilei
pileless
pileorhiza
pileous
piler
piles
pileum

WORDS THAT END LIKE PILE

agile
automobile
awhile
chile
compile
crocodile
difficile
domicile
exile
fragile
half-mile
infantile
infertile
Nile
stile
toile
versatile
voile
wait-a-while
worthwhile

Synonyms and antonyms of pile in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PILE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pile» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pile

Translation of «pile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PILE

Find out the translation of pile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pila
570 millions of speakers

English

pile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ढेर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كَوْمَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стопка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pilha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গাদা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Longgokan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Haufen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

積み重ね
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

퇴적물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tumpukan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ढेर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

istif
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pila
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stos
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

купа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grămadă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σωρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stapel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hög
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stabel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PILE»

The term «pile» is very widely used and occupies the 10.588 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PILE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pile» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pile» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pile

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PILE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pile.
1
J. J. Abrams
Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
2
Gautam Adani
Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.
3
Giorgio Armani
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
4
Rick Astley
My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was such an adventure - my siblings and I were allowed to roam and explore the local beaches. We loved the freedom of those trips.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
6
Joy Behar
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
7
Neill Blomkamp
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
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Bill Burr
Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.
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Italo Calvino
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
10
Billy Campbell
I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILE»

Discover the use of pile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A History of Interior Design
Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space.
John F. Pile, 2005
2
Pile Foundations in Engineering Practice
This is a concise, systematic and complete treatment of the design and construction of pile foundations.
Shamsher Prakash, 1990
3
Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth Edition
This international handbook is essential for geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists responsible for designing and constructing piled foundations.
Michael Tomlinson, John Woodward, 2007
4
Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb
Generally, these books are complicated and difficult to understand. Easy to use and understand, this book covers virtually every subject concerning pile design, featuring techniques that do not appear in other books on the subject.
Ruwan Rajapakse, 2011
5
Pile Foundation Analysis and Design
Provides methods of analysis of pile formation that may be useful in design.
H. G AUTOR POULUS, E. H. Davis, 1980
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The Sand Compaction Pile Method
This book presents detailed descriptions of design, execution, quality control, equipment and assurance aspects of the SCP method, illustrating the theory with case studies from around Japan and also including a thorough overview of the ...
Masaki Kitazume, 2005
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Design of Pile Foundations in Liquefi...
This book provides many case histories of failure of pile foundations due to earthquake loading and soil liquefaction. Based on the observed case histories, the possible mechanisms of failure of the pile foundations are postulated.
Gopal Madabhushi, Jonathan Knappett, Stuart Haigh, 2009
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Single Piles and Pile Groups Under Lateral Loading
Guiding the professional through the complexities of lateral-load design, this book and CD-ROM combination introduces the procedures involved in piles and pile group design.
Lymon C. Reese, Willem van Impe, 2000
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Developing Production Pile Driving Criteria from Test Pile Data
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 418: Developing Production Pile Driving Criteria from Test Pile Data provides information on the current practices used by state transportation agencies to develop pile ...
Dan A. Brown, William Robert Thompson, 2011
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Pile Driver
Spanning the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition and The Great Depression, Pile Driver is set in one of the most colorful periods of United States history. The story of Charles Berthold Fischer reveals hardship, humility and honor.
Kenneth R. Boness, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pile is used in the context of the following news items.
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Problems pile up for Greek boat-builders as taxes bite
FILE - In this Thursday, April 10, 2007 file photo, yachts are docked at Marina Alimos, southern Athens. In order to get its third bailout in five ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
2
Tire pile fire doused at private rural landfill
There was little trace of a tire pile fire Sunday afternoon at the private landfill owned by D.B. Waste after Bismarck rural firefighters doused it with ... «Bismarck Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Woman in her 70s killed in three-car pile-up
Separately, a woman in her 70s was killed in a three-car pile-up in Co Limerick yesterday evening. The victim was travelling in a car that ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Three hospitalised by Luton multi-car pile-up on M1
THREE passengers were injured in a four-car pile-up on the M1 this weekend. Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue were called to a road traffic ... «Luton On Sunday, Jul 15»
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Stop for pedestrian leads to car pile-up
DAMAGED: This car came off badly when it rear-ended another vehicle at a Featherston pedestrian crossing. PHOTO/ANDREW BONALLACK. «Wairarapa Times-Age, Jul 15»
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Rare dog found battered and starving in a pile of rubbish - police …
Police are investigating after this terrified rare breed of dog was found battered and starving - among a pile of rubbish. The male Dogue de ... «Western Daily Press, Jul 15»
7
Super League roundup: Leeds Rhinos finish top of pile, Castleford …
Wakefield, on the other hand, end the regular campaign bottom of the pile after a dismal run of one win in 21 outings. Elsewhere, Danny ... «Sports Mole, Jul 15»
8
Pile on the rice with curry
Pile on the rice with curry. The Stae/ ANN. | 27 July, 2015. Small font | Big font |. title= Rice and curry (ANN). There is something about curry with its intense ... «The Statesman, Jul 15»
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Two people cut from their cars in Stretford after three-car pile up
A dramatic rescue to free two people trapped in their car took place last night after a three-vehicle smash. Firefighters had to cut the roof off the ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
10
Boos, mistakes pile up as Red Sox continue to drop
RUBBER NECKING: Red Sox starter Steven Wright looks over his shoulder as he watches one hit out of the park by Tigers slugger Yoenis ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»

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