(n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
(n.) A covering of hair or fur.
(n.) The head of an arrow or spear.
(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
(v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
(n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.
(n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.
(n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.
(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.
(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.
(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.
(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.
(v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(2) Piling refugees on trains in the hopes that they go far, far away brings back memories of the darkest period of our continent,” he told Der Spiegel.
(3) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
(4) Chris Williamson, of data provider Markit, said: "A batch of dismal data and a gloomier assessment of the economic outlook has cast a further dark cloud over the UK's economic health, piling pressure on the government to review its fiscal policy and growth strategy.
(5) This is a substantial country, not just a pile of bricks.
(6) Then they become increasingly unable to afford the probation fees that are piled on by private companies paid to oversee them, including fees for everything from basic supervision to drug tests.
(7) For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations.
(8) According to its physical and biochemical properties, poly(L-malate) may alternatively function as a molecular chaperone in nucleosome assembly in the S phase and as both an inhibitor and a stock-piling agent of DNA-polymerase-alpha-primase in the G2 phase and M phase of the plasmodial cell cycle.
(9) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
(10) In the spare room, there was a pile of CVs aimed at charities to secure this “free labour” imposed by the benefits system.
(11) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(12) There are 80,000 bars and restaurants there and they're often piled eight stories high on top of each other.
(13) Cards pile on the runs, and here comes Hurdle to get Burnett, about three batters too late.
(14) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(15) Rather, it's because because policymakers and administrators have come to treat higher education as a commercial marketplace, rather than a public trust – and stop-gap student loan reforms like those "unveiled" by President Obama this week fail to confront this ethical dilemma underlying the debt pile.
(16) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(17) Signs that large companies are ready to start spending some of the cash piles they have been sitting on while smaller firms are prepared to borrow to expand reflect a brighter outlook for sales.
(18) Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal investigation into GlaxoSmithKline's sales practices, piling further pressure on the drugmaker which is already being investigated by Chinese authorities and elsewhere amid allegations of bribery.
(19) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
(20) The ONS said UK's debt pile had risen to £1.11tn or 70.7% of GDP.
Stilt
Definition:
(n.) A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
(n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
(n.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
(v. t.) To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
(2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(3) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(4) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
(5) Old plastic supermarket bags clog the ground under the platform stilts and the smell of sewage is overpowering.
(6) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
(7) Updated at 1.33am GMT 1.23am GMT Lorde , a 17-year-old who achieved massive international success in about four months, steps on a small, round stage to perform a stilted version of her megahit Royals.
(8) It has been a stilted trajectory so far, when you consider the Guardian first wrote about her in 2008, describing her as "the female Frankmusik, the Fisher Price Fischerspooner" based on her debut single !Franchesckaar!
(9) My house is on stilts and there are 11 steps up to my front door so by Saturday morning, the water was already very high.
(10) The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times.
(11) Instead, the houses are built on stilts – meaning they can be much closer to trees.
(12) Initial clinical signs included stilted gait and simultaneous advancement of their pelvic limbs.
(13) Sample one of these stilted rorbu – timber-built and each boasting modern kitchens, lounges and nice bathrooms – in the cod-fishing town of Svolvær.
(14) Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
(15) It has been claimed that those using social media in an abusive and vindictive way towards this woman are supporters of mine,” said Evans, who beyond a stilted video statement on his release had said nothing as the controversy swirled around him.
(16) (There is an ancillary attempt to make himself sound posh by using the stiltedly correct form of "ambassador to the UK".
(17) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
(18) "I represent the people of Xinjiang," Aisikaier says in stilted Mandarin.
(19) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(20) General clinical symptoms in these animals immediately postexposure were tremors, lethargy, stilted gait, and, in some animals, prostration.