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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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fuse
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fyo?oz, IPA(key): /fju?z/
- Hyphenation: fuse
- Rhymes: -u?z
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin f?sus (“spindle”).
Noun
fuse (plural fuses)
- A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
- Synonym: fuze (US)
- (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
- Synonym: fuze
- (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
- (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.
- A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
- A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Usage notes
Professional publications about explosives and munitions distinguish the fuse and fuze spellings. The latter is preferred for the sense “mechanism that ignites the charge”.
Derived terms
- blow a fuse
- fusebox
- fuse wire
- short fuse
Translations
Etymology 2
Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”).
Verb
fuse (third-person singular simple present fuses, present participle fusing, simple past and past participle fused)
- (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- (intransitive) To melt together.
- To furnish with or install a fuse.
- (organic chemistry) To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings
Synonyms
- (mix indistinguishably): See also Thesaurus:homogenize
- (melt together): meld, smelt
Translations
Anagrams
- feus
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: fusent, fuses
Verb
fuse
- first-person singular present indicative of fuser
- third-person singular present indicative of fuser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fuser
- second-person singular imperative of fuser
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uze
Adjective
fuse
- feminine plural of fuso
Noun
fuse f pl
- plural of fusa
Participle
fuse f pl
- feminine plural of fuso
Verb
fuse
- third-person singular past historic of fondere
Latin
Participle
f?se
- vocative masculine singular of f?sus
Adverb
f?s? (comparative f?sius, superlative f?sissim?)
- widely, extensively
- in great detail
- loosely, roughly
References
- fuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fuse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fuse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fuse (present tense fuser, past tense fuste, past participle fust)
- rush
Adjective
fuse
- inflection of fus:
- definite singular
- plural
References
- “fuse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- fusa (verb) (a infinitive)
Verb
fuse (present tense fusar, past tense fusa, past participle fusa, passive infinitive fusast, present participle fusande, imperative fus)
- rush
Adjective
fuse
- inflection of fus:
- definite singular
- plural
- neuter of fusen
References
- “fuse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fu.se]
Etymology 1
Verb
fuse
- third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi: he/she has been
Synonyms
- fu (informal)
Etymology 2
Noun
fuse n
- indefinite plural of fus
Venetian
Verb
fuse
- first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
- third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of èser
- third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of èser
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