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PRONUNCIATION OF PILE UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILE UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pile up 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.

WHAT DOES PILE UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pile up

Multiple-vehicle collision

A multi-vehicle collision is a road traffic accident involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic accidents. The most disastrous pile-ups have involved more than a hundred vehicles.

Definition of pile up in the English dictionary

The first definition of pile up in the dictionary is to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate. Other definition of pile up is to crash or cause to crash. Pile up is also a multiple collision of vehicles.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILE UP

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE PILE UP

be made up
bottle up
bundle up
come up
double up
give up
have up
hole up
hustle up
lace up
live up
rustle up
shake up
size up
take up
tie up
tune up
use up
whistle up
write up

Synonyms and antonyms of pile up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PILE UP»

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

Translation of «pile up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PILE UP

Find out the translation of pile up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pile up 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 up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

数辆车同时碰撞事件
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

choque en cadena
570 millions of speakers

English

pile up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ढेर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إِصْطِدَام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

массовая автокатастрофа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engavetamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পিল আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

carambolage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

terkumpul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Massenkarambolage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

山積み
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연쇄 충돌
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

tumpukan munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tai nạn liên hoàn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவியலாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ढेकूळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yığmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tamponamento a catena
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nagromadzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

велика аварія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

accident în lanț
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καραμπόλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stapel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

seriekrock
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

opphopning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pile up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PILE UP»

The term «pile up» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.012 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PILE UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pile up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pile up» 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 up

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILE UP»

Discover the use of pile up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pile up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Summary: Conquering the Paper Pile Up - Stephanie Culp
CONQUERING. THE. PAPER. PILE-UP. Main. Idea. Millions of people are awash in a sea of paper and are looking for simple solutions to this time consuming fact of life. The answer lies in: 1. Developing an effective paper handling system that ...
BusinessNews Publishing, 2013
2
Statistical Challenges in Astronomy
New MCMC Methods to Address Pile-up in the Chandra X-ray Observatory Hosung Kang 1, David A. van Dyk, Yarning Yu, Aneta Siemiginowska, Alanna Connors, and Vinay L. Kashyap 47.1 Pile Up Pile-up occurs in X-ray detectors when two ...
Eric D. Feigelson, G. Jogesh Babu, 2003
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DISLOCATIONS AND MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF MATERIALS
Boundary r Pile-up Source '|' '|' '|' '|' '|' '|' 9 J' J' J' J' J' J' I . II I': II. I L L I Figure 3.154 A double-ended pile-up of edge dislocations held up at obstacles under an applied shear stress 7'. slip plane, say between two grain boundaries, in such a ...
M. N. SHETTY, 2013
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The Two-word Verb: A Dictionary of the Verb-preposition ...
[Heap flattery on the person she wants a favor from.] pile up 1. T (1) The children were piling up the fallen leaves in the back yard and jumping about in them. [ Making piles of leaves.] 2. I (1,6) John, the leaves are piling up in the back yard.
George A. Meyer, 1975
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R&D Studies on the Hadronic Calorimeter and Physics ...
In order to see the effects of pile-up events in FAMOS, we created the signal events for a 1 80 GeV Higgs mass with and without pile-up events without any kinematic cuts. In the pile-up case, 3.5 pile-up events are added to every event.
Firdevs Duru, 2007
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Everyday Maths 2
Parcel. Pile-Up. arcel. Pile-Up. arcel. Pile-Up. arcel. Pile-Up. arcel. Pile-Up. Neil Number has a new after school deliveryjob. He delivers parcels for Mr Hammer at the Hardware Store. He has a large pile of packages that need to be dropped ...
Jane Bourke, 1997
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Crystalline Defects and Contamination: Their Impact and ...
The Ge pile-up layer in the sample oxidized longest was further investigated by composition analysis. Figure 4a is a dark-field STEM image recorded with the HAADF detector. Due to the higher atomic number of Ge than Si the Ge pile-up ...
Bernd O. Kolbesen, 2005
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World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering ...
... compared with the experimental measurement of count rate performance, showed a good agreement between the two different approaches. Keywords— Count rate performance; Monte Carlo simulation; Pile-up effect; MCNP code.
Olaf Dössel, Wolfgang C. Schlegel, 2010
9
Nine Stop Trip
Adam Byfield. PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP PILE UP The street is long, dark and increasingly wet. Within the familiar winter evening, houses huddle in on themselves in two ...
Adam Byfield, 2011
10
Advanced Gate Stack, Source/drain and Channel Engineering ...
broadened for the grading Ge fraction through the Ge pile-up layer. Therefore, in order to investigate the change in strain, we assume that the Ge fraction was constant and we calculated the average value of the vertical lattice constant as a  ...
M. Öztürk, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILE UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pile up 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
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»
3
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»
4
One More Thing: Dunnes Stores lawsuits pile up
More evidence that the Dunnes Stores legal department is a busy spot. Bovale Developments, whose directors previously included the Bailey ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
5
Costly mistakes pile up for B.C. Lions as Argos complete the …
As far as comebacks go, the Toronto Argonauts have outdone the B.C. Lions. Two weeks after completing a miraculous fourth-quarter ... «MetroNews Canada, Jul 15»
6
Corey Kluber, Joey Votto will pile up daily fantasy points Friday
Every day, we'll examine the biggest fantasy baseball stories and provide daily fantasy baseball tips to help you win money on FantasyScore. «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
7
Bikes pile up in Norwood Police Department evidence room
Lost bikes often go unclaimed at the Norwood Police Department. The department currently has 15 bicycles in their evidence room, officer Tom ... «Wicked Local Norwood, Jul 15»
8
Editorial: No good reason for rape kits to pile up untested
A recent USA Today Media Network investigation found that the nation's top law enforcement agency has failed to comply with federal laws ... «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
9
Protests choke Lucknow roads, pile up vehicles
As soon as drivers got to know of the traffic pile-up in the vicinity, they started reversing their vehicles. This further aggravated the problems of ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
10
Errors pile up as Pippins fall to Elks
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Given their record, their lead in the West Coast League's South Division and their staggering offensive numbers, it's clear that ... «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jul 15»

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