pile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pile	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pile n a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" Synonym(s): pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) Synonym(s): down, pile battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta Synonym(s): voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure Synonym(s): pile, spile, piling, stilt the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction" Synonym(s): pile, nap a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy Synonym(s): atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor v arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" Synonym(s): stack, pile, heap press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" Synonym(s): throng, mob, pack, pile, jam place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PILE 1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. ["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282]. 2. ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979]. (1999-06-04)