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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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chaos
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).
In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ke?.?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ke?.?s/
- Rhymes: -e??s
Noun
chaos (usually uncountable, plural chaoses)
- The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
- Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
- (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
- (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
- (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
- (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
- , II.ii.3:
- What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?
- , II.ii.3:
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:disorder
Antonyms
- (classical cosmogony): cosmos
- (state of disorder): order
Derived terms
Related terms
- chaotropic
- chaotropism
Translations
See also
- entropy
- discord
- capricious
Anagrams
- Socha, oshac
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch chaos, from Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).
Noun
chaos (uncountable)
- chaos (disorder)
- (cosmogony) primordial disorder
Czech
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).
Noun
chaos m
- chaos
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa?.?s/
- Hyphenation: cha?os
Noun
chaos m (uncountable)
- chaos (disorder)
- Synonyms: baaierd, rommel, wanorde, warboel
- (cosmogony) primordial disorder
Antonyms
- netheid
- orde
Derived terms
- chaostheoretisch
- chaostheorie
- chaotisch
Descendants
- Afrikaans: chaos
- ? West Frisian: gaos
- ? Indonesian: kaos
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.o/
- Rhymes: -o
Noun
chaos m (uncountable)
- chaos
Further reading
- “chaos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?k?a.os/, [?k?ä?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ka.os/, [?k???s]
Noun
chaos n sg (genitive cha?); second declension
- Alternative letter-case form of Chaos
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.
References
- chaos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- chaos in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?[1]
- chaos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- chaos in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Polish
Etymology
From Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa.?s/
Noun
chaos m inan
- chaos
Declension
Derived terms
- chaotyczny
Further reading
- chaos in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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