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And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
Nigella Lawson

Meaning of "pile-up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PILE-UP

pile-up  [ˈpaɪlʌp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILE-UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pile-Up is 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.

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 definition of pile-up in the dictionary is a road traffic accident involving several vehicles.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PILE-UP


balls-up
ˈbɔːlʌp
ballup
ˈbɔːlʌp
call-up
ˈkɔːlʌp
foul-up
ˈfaʊlʌp
klap
klʌp
roll-up
ˈrəʊlʌp
scaleup
ˈskeɪlʌp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PILE-UP

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE PILE-UP

change-up
close-up
eye make-up
flare-up
hand-me-up
lace-up
line-up
made-up
make-up
muddle-up
multiple pile-up
one-up
pick-me-up
re-up
shake-up
take-up
tie-up
tune-up
wake-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

堆积
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 अप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كومة المتابعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нагромождение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pilha -up
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গাদা-আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pile-up
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

terkumpul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pile-up
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パイルアップ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

더미 업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

tumpukan munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đống -up
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவியல் அப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ढीग-अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yığmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tamponamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kruszenie się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нагромадження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pile - up
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καραμπόλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stapel -up
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pile - up
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pile- up
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 48.013 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

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

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QUOTES WITH «PILE-UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pile-up.
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Nigella Lawson
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

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
8
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
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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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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»
2
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»
3
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»
4
Six-vehicle pile-up shuts M6
Two people were taken to hospital after a six-car smash closed the northbound carriageway of the M6 on Saturday morning. One of the ... «Lancashire Evening Post, Jul 15»
5
Ten-car pile-up holds up West Gate Freeway
A massive car pile-up caused severe traffic delays on the West Gate Freeway this evening. A VicRoads spokesman said 10 vehicles were ... «The Age, Jul 15»
6
Traffic queues after three-vehicle pile-up off M4
TRAFFIC queued up Whitehill Lane in Royal Wootton Bassett on this afternoon after a three-vehicle pile-up just off the M4. At first, drivers ... «Swindon Advertiser, Jul 15»
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European high-yield clears EUR7bn debt pile-up
... * High-yield backlog creates busiest week year-to-date. * Market absorbs new supply with relative ease. By Robert Smith. LONDON, July 24 ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
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European high-yield clears €7bn debt pile-up
European high-yield clears €7bn debt pile-up. IFR 2093 25 July to 31 July 2015 By Robert Smith. This content is only available to IFRe.com subscribers. «International Financing Review, Jul 15»
9
No injuries one DUI arrest in I-29 pile-up
GARDNER, N.D. (KFGO-AM) - Five vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction collision which shut down I-29 north of Fargo. Cass County ... «KFGO, Jul 15»
10
PD: Car crashes into building on Superior, causes pile-up after …
CLEVELAND - A failed traffic stop ended in a car crashing into a building and causing a several car pile-up on Superior Avenue on Thursday. «newsnet5.com, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Pile-Up [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pile-up-1>. May 2024 ».
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