pile

Definitions

• A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• (figuratively) 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.
• A large building, or mass of buildings.
• 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), lay 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.
• An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
• (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• (figuratively) A list or league