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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)

  1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  2. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
  3. A mass formed in layers.
  4. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  5. (slang) A large amount of money.
    Synonyms: bundle, (both informal) mint, (colloquial) small fortune
  6. 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 []
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. (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
  10. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
  11. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  12. (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)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  3. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  4. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  5. (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)

  1. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  2. The head of an arrow or spear.
  3. 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.
  4. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. (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)

  1. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
  2. 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.
Translations

Verb

pile (third-person singular simple present piles, present participle piling, simple past and past participle piled)

  1. (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

  1. 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)

  1. heap, stack
  2. pillar
  3. battery
  4. tails
  5. (heraldry) pile

Derived terms

  • pile ou face

Descendants

  • ? Haitian Creole: anpil
  • ? Khmer: ??? (p?l)
  • ? Malagasy: pila
  • ? Rade: pil
  • ? Turkish: pil
  • ? Vietnamese: pin

Adverb

pile

  1. (colloquial) just, exactly
  2. (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)

  1. basin
  2. mortar (vessel used to grind things)

Synonyms

  • (basin): vâs
  • (mortar): mortâr

Etymology 2

From Latin p?la (pillar).

Noun

pile f (plural pilis)

  1. pile (architecture)

Italian

Noun

pile m (invariable)

  1. fleece (all senses)

Noun

pile f

  1. plural of pila

Anagrams

  • peli

Latin

Noun

pile

  1. vocative singular of pilus

Latvian

Noun

pile f (5th declension)

  1. drip
  2. dribble (a small amount of a liquid)
  3. drop

Declension


Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?il?/, [?p?il?]

Noun

pile

  1. inflection of pi?a:
    1. dative/locative singular
    2. nominative/accusative dual

Middle English

Noun

pile

  1. Alternative form of pilwe

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?i.l?/

Noun

pile f

  1. dative/locative singular of pi?a

Portuguese

Verb

pile

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pilar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pilar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pilar
  4. 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 ?????)

  1. chick

Declension

See also

  • kokoš
  • pijevac / pevac
  • pile?i gulaš

Verb

pile (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. third-person plural present of piliti

Spanish

Verb

pile

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pilar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pilar.
  3. 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)

  1. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
  2. Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
  3. (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
  4. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
  5. (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
  6. (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?

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)

  1. chaos (disorder)
  2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, vast chasm, void).

Noun

chaos m

  1. 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)

  1. chaos (disorder)
    Synonyms: baaierd, rommel, wanorde, warboel
  2. (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)

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. chaos

Declension

Derived terms

  • chaotyczny

Further reading

  • chaos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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