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pile

Learn how to correctly hyphenate "pile" with detailed syllable breakdown and pronunciation guide.

1 syllable
4 characters
English (US)
1syllable

pile

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, pile is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofpile

1noun
  • A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

    Example: "When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile"

  • A mass formed in layers.

    Example: "a pile of shot"

  • A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • A large amount of money.

    Example: "He made a pile from that invention of his."

  • 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), 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.
  • The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • A list or league
1verb
  • (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

    Example: "They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow."

  • To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

    Example: "We piled the camel with our loads."

  • To add something to a great number.
  • (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

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