Слово англійською: pile

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Переклад pile українською: купа

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pile

noun
/paɪl/
see also piles
  1. [countable] 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.
    • I've sorted the books into three separate piles.
  2. [countable] a mass of something that is high in the middle and wider at the bottom than at the top synonym heap
    • pile of something piles of dirty washing
    • The house was reduced to a pile of rubble.
    • He threw the remaining stones onto the pile.
  3. [countable, usually plural] pile of something (informal) 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.
  4. [uncountable, singular] 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.
  5. [countable] a large wooden, metal or stone post that is fixed into the ground and used to support a building, bridge, etc.
  6. [countable] (formal or humorous) a large impressive building
    • a Victorian pile built as a private hospital
    • her family's ancestral pile
    7. Word Originnoun senses 1 to 3, noun sense 6 late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila ‘pillar, pier’. noun sense 5 Old English pīl ‘dart, arrow’, also ‘pointed stake’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum ‘(heavy) javelin’. noun sense 4 Middle English (in the sense ‘downy feather’): from Latin pilus ‘hair’. The current sense dates from the mid 16th cent.
Idioms
(at the) bottom/top of the pile
  1. 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.
make a/your pile
  1. (informal) 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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