piles
Because it is a word with a single syllable, piles is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofpiles
- 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
- (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.
- A dart; an arrow.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (piles of) A large amount of.
Example: "He must earn piles of money."
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