different between lump vs pile
lump
English
Etymology
From Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
lump (plural lumps)
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
- a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
- A group, set, or unit.
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- A dull or lazy person.
- Don't just sit there like a lump.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
- “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ”
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
Hyponyms
- nubble
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
- If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
Derived terms
- lump together
Translations
See also
- take one’s lumps
- lump it
- like it or lump it
Further reading
- lump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lump in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Plum, plum
Czech
Etymology
From German Lump.
Noun
lump m
- scoundrel, rascal
Synonyms
- See also darebák
Related terms
- ni?emný
Further reading
- lump in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- lump in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English lumpfish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœ?p/
Noun
lump m (plural lumps)
- lumpfish
References
- “lump” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lump]
- Hyphenation: lump
- Rhymes: -ump
Adjective
lump (comparative lumpabb, superlative leglumpabb)
- rakish, dissolute, debauched (regularly engaging in late night drunken social gatherings)
- Synonyms: korhely, mulatós, kicsapongó, italos, részeges
Declension
Derived terms
- lumpol
Noun
lump (plural lumpok)
- (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly of a man) rascal, carouser, roisterer, raver, drunkard (a person who regularly attends late night drunken social gatherings)
Declension
References
Further reading
- lump in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Polish
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lump/
Noun
lump m pers
- (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well
Declension
Noun
lump m inan
- (Pozna?) clothing
- (colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks.
Further reading
- lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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pile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French pile, pille, from Latin p?la (“pillar, pier”).
Noun
pile (plural piles)
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (figuratively, 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.
- Synonyms: bundle, (both informal) mint, (colloquial) small fortune
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.2:
- The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture […]
- 1697, John Dryden, The Aeneid
- The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
- It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor […]
- 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, II.2:
- 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.
- Hyponyms: friction pile, bearing pile, end bearing pile
- Coordinate terms: pile driver, pile foundation
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- (figuratively) A list or league
- Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Translations
Verb
pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
- (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.
Synonyms
- (lay or throw into a pile): heap, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Translations
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old English p?l, from Latin p?lum (“heavy javelin”). Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil. Doublet of pilum.
Noun
pile (plural piles)
- (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- 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.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Translations
Etymology 3
Apparently from Late Latin pilus.
Noun
pile (plural piles)
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English pile, partly from Anglo-Norman pil (a variant of peil, poil (“hair”)) and partly from its source, Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pilus.
Noun
pile (countable and uncountable, plural piles)
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
Translations
Verb
pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
Anagrams
- Lipe, Peil, Piel, plie, plié
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi?l?/, [?p?i?l?]
Noun
pile c
- indefinite plural of pil
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin p?la (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pil/
Noun
pile f (plural piles)
- heap, stack
- pillar
- battery
- tails
- (heraldry) pile
Derived terms
- pile ou face
Descendants
- ? Haitian Creole: anpil
- ? Khmer: ??? (p?l)
- ? Malagasy: pila
- ? Rade: pil
- ? Turkish: pil
- ? Vietnamese: pin
Adverb
pile
- (colloquial) just, exactly
- (colloquial) dead (of stopping etc.); on the dot, sharp (of time), smack
Derived terms
- pile-poil
Further reading
- “pile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- plie, plié
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin p?la (“mortar”).
Noun
pile f (plural pilis)
- basin
- mortar (vessel used to grind things)
Synonyms
- (basin): vâs
- (mortar): mortâr
Etymology 2
From Latin p?la (“pillar”).
Noun
pile f (plural pilis)
- pile (architecture)
Italian
Noun
pile m (invariable)
- fleece (all senses)
Noun
pile f
- plural of pila
Anagrams
- peli
Latin
Noun
pile
- vocative singular of pilus
Latvian
Noun
pile f (5th declension)
- drip
- dribble (a small amount of a liquid)
- drop
Declension
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?il?/, [?p?il?]
Noun
pile
- inflection of pi?a:
- dative/locative singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Middle English
Noun
pile
- Alternative form of pilwe
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i.l?/
Noun
pile f
- dative/locative singular of pi?a
Portuguese
Verb
pile
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pilar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pilar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pilar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pilar
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pil? (“chick”); but also a *piskl? is reconstructed related to *piskati (“to utter shrilly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pîle/
- Hyphenation: pi?le
Noun
p?le n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- chick
Declension
See also
- kokoš
- pijevac / pevac
- pile?i gulaš
Verb
pile (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of piliti
Spanish
Verb
pile
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pilar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pilar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pilar.
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