pile
英 [pa?l]
美[pa?l]
- n. 堆；大量；建筑群
- vt. 累積；打樁于
- vi. 擠；堆積；積累
- n. (Pile)人名；(西)皮萊；(英)派爾
英英釋意
- 1. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- 2. (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"
- "it must have cost plenty"
- 3. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit);
- "she made a bundle selling real estate"
- "they sank megabucks into their new house"
- 4. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- 5. battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- 6. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- 7. 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"
- 8. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy