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How to pronounce “pile”
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Pronunciation guide for pile
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pile with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power
I think it's fair to say he was handed the largest pile of steamy dooky any President
- Definition summary
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce pile
Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power
I think it's fair to say he was handed the largest pile of steamy dooky any President
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pile”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- 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.
- 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.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- 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
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
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