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pile(encyclopedia)
pile(8)(dictionary)
pile(7)(dictionary)
pile(6)(dictionary)
pile(5)(dictionary)
pile(3)(dictionary)
pile(2)(dictionary)
pile(1)(dictionary)
pile(medicine)

gull (oh) and pile(8) (iou)


gull (oh)




[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: From a Celtic language.]
a large common black and white sea bird that lives near the sea
-synonym seagull seagull

pile(8) (iou)



pile verb2. LME.
[from PILE noun4.]
verb trans. Form into a pile or heap; heap up. Usu. foll. by on, up. LME.
P. Gallico Piled up blocks of masonry to form a wall. Toeckey Jones Mother..piled a second helping of Vegetables on Helen's plate. E. North Julia piled up the plates.
b. = FAGGOT verb 4. M19.
c. Tanning. Form (hides) into a pile in order to sweat them and cause the hair to come off. Chiefly as piling verbal noun. L19.
a. verb intrans. Form a pile or large mass, amass. Now usu. foll. by up. E17.
R. Burns Chill o'er his slumbers, piles the drifty heap! E. Bowen Traffic..piled up at intersections. J. Irving Wilbur Larch let the mail pile up unanswered. C. Tomalin The Blue Review's debts piled up.
b. verb trans. Amass, accumulate. Usu. foll. by up. M19.
J. A. Gibbs The cricketer goes on..piling up runs.
c. verb intrans. Enter or leave (a place, vehicle, etc.) or move in a hurried, tightly packed, or disorderly crowd. Foll. by in, into, on, off, out of, etc. M19.
H. L. Foster The tourists piled towards the exits. R. Graves There were about three thousand prisoners..and more piled in every day. N. West All six..piled into one cab. G. Greene His fellow guests piled out of cars.
verb trans. Cover or load with things to form a heap. M17.
L. Black Piling his plate with meat.
a. verb trans. Crash (a vehicle). Usu. foll. by up. L19.
N. Shute The fellow was so drunk that he'd probably have piled his car up anyway.
b. verb intrans. Of a vehicle: crash (into). Also foll. by up. M20.
Oxford Mail Nine cars..piled up on the M25. Sailplane & Gliding Another helicopter has piled into the trees.
Phrases: pile arms position (usu. three) rifles with the butts on the ground and the muzzles together, for easy access. pile it on, pile on the agony colloq. exaggerate for effect or to gain sympathy. pile Pelion (up)on Ossa, pile Ossa (up)on Pelion: see PELION.
Comb.: pile-up colloq. (a) a crash involving several road vehicles; (the wreckage at) the scene of such a crash; (b) an accumulation of things, tasks, etc; (c) Electronics a lack of linearity or resolution in a pulse circuit caused by the pulses arriving too rapidly.
piler noun E17.