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📖 Определения и значения для слова pile

📒 a number of things that have been placed on top of each other

  • pile of something a pile of clothes/paper
  • I found it in a pile of documents on his desk.
  • in/into a pile The hats were stacked in neat piles.

📒 a mass of something that is high in the middle and wider at the bottom than at the top

  • pile of something piles of dirty washing
  • The house was reduced to a pile of rubble.
  • He threw the remaining stones onto the pile.

📒 a lot of something

  • He made a pile of cash on the sale of his house.
  • He walked out leaving a pile of debt behind him.
  • I have got piles of work to do.

📒 the short threads, pieces of wool, etc. that form the soft surface of carpets and some types of cloth such as velvet

  • a deep-pile carpet
  • Corduroy is the poor man’s velvet; its pile is made of cotton rather than silk or satin.

📒 a large wooden, metal or stone post that is fixed into the ground and used to support a building, bridge, etc.

📒 a large impressive building

  • a Victorian pile built as a private hospital
  • her family's ancestral pile

📒 in the least/most important position in a group of people or things

  • It’s been 20 years since a British player was top of the pile.
  • The government is doing little to help those at the bottom of the social pile.

📒 to make a lot of money

  • The family made its pile from oil.
  • I bet they made an absolute pile out of the deal.
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