Usually means: Collection of items stacked together.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pile, pile, pile, pile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pile, pile, pile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pile, pile: Wordnik
  7. pile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pile, Pile: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Pile, pile: Wiktionary
  10. pile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pile: Dictionary.com
  14. pile (1), pile (2), pile (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pile (abstract data type), Pile (band), Pile (disambiguation), Pile (fabric), Pile (heraldry), Pile (singer), Pile (textile), Pile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pile: Rhymezone
  20. pile, pile (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PILE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. pile: Free Dictionary
  24. pile: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. pile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. pile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. pile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pile: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PILE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. pile: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Pile (disambiguation), pile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pile (disambiguation), pile: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PILE: Acronym Finder
  2. pile: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Pile: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pile, pile, pile: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Pile: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. pile: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pile: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. pile: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. PILE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. Pile: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
noun:  (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
noun:  A mass formed in layers.
noun:  A funeral pile; a pyre.
noun:  (slang) A large amount of money.
noun:  A large building, or mass of buildings.
noun:  A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
noun:  A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
noun:  (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
noun:  An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
noun:  (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
noun:  A list or league
verb:  (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
verb:  (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
verb:  (transitive) To add something to a great number.
verb:  (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
verb:  (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
noun:  (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
noun:  The head of an arrow or spear.
noun:  A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
noun:  (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
verb:  (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
noun:  Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
noun:  The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
verb:  (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
noun:  A surname.

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