n. 堆, 大堆, 大厦, 建筑群, 电池, 大量, 桥桩, 软毛, 痔疮

vi. 堆起, 堆积, 积累, 挤, 猛烈攻击

vt. 堆于, 累积, 堆叠, 打桩于, 用桩支撑

[医] 堆, 痔

Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilum javelin. See {Pile} a stake.]
The head of an arrow or spear. [Obs.] --Chapman.


Pile \Pile\, n. [AS. p[=i]l arrow, stake, L. pilum javelin; but
cf. also L. pila pillar.]
1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into
the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor
where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a
pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam,
etc.

Note: Tubular iron piles are now much used.

2. [Cf. F. pile.] (Her.) One of the ordinaries or
subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed
palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

{Pile bridge}, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on
piles.

{Pile cap}, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of
piles.

{Pile driver}, or {Pile engine}, an apparatus for driving
down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with
suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or
steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc.) a heavy
mass of iron, which falls upon the pile.

{Pile dwelling}. See {Lake dwelling}, under {Lake}.

{Pile plank} (Hydraul. Eng.), a thick plank used as a pile in
sheet piling. See {Sheet piling}, under {Piling}.

{Pneumatic pile}. See under {Pneumatic}.

{Screw pile}, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by
rotation aided by pressure.


Pile \Pile\, n. [L. pilus hair. Cf. {Peruke}.]
1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like;
also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and
velvet.

Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. --Cowper.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A covering of hair or fur.


Pile \Pile\, v. t.
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with
piles.

{To sheet-pile}, to make sheet piling in or around. See
{Sheet piling}, under 2nd {Piling}.


Pile \Pile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Piling}.]
1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to
collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often
with up; as, to pile up wood. ``Hills piled on hills.''
--Dryden. ``Life piled on life.'' --Tennyson.

The labor of an age in piled stones. --Milton.

2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or
overfill; to load.

{To pile arms} {To pile muskets} (Mil.), to place three guns
together so that they may stand upright, supporting each
other; to stack arms.


Pile \Pile\, n. [F. pile, L. pila a pillar, a pier or mole of
stone. Cf. {Pillar}.]
1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of
stones; a pile of wood.

2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

3. A funeral pile; a pyre. --Dryden.

4. A large building, or mass of buildings.

The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
--Dryden.

5. (Iron Manuf.) Same as {Fagot}, n., 2.

6. (Elec.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two
dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks
of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them,
for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called
{Volta's pile}, {voltaic pile}, or {galvanic pile}.

Note: The term is sometimes applied to other forms of
apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity,
or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an
apparatus for generating a current of electricity by
the action of heat, usually called a thermopile.

7. [F. pile pile, an engraved die, L. pila a pillar.] The
reverse of a coin. See {Reverse}.

{Cross and pile}. See under {Cross}.

{Dry pile}. See under {Dry}.

Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. {Pill} a medicine.]
(Med.)
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and
lower part of the rectum which are technically called
{hemorrhoids}. See {Hemorrhoids}.

Note: [The singular {pile} is sometimes used.]

{Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.