Battery vs. Pile — What's the Difference?

(Electricity) A device containing an electric cell or a series of electric cells storing chemical energy that can be converted into electrical energy, usually in the form of direct current.

A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap.

A device that stores mechanical or other energy for later use.

A large accumulation or quantity

The act of beating or pounding.

A large amount of money

(Law) The unlawful and unwanted touching or striking of one person by another, with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact.

A nuclear reactor.

An emplacement for one or more pieces of artillery.

A voltaic pile.

A set of guns or other heavy artillery, as on a warship.

A very large building or complex of buildings.

An army artillery unit, corresponding to a company in the infantry.

A funeral pyre.

An array of similar things intended for use together

A heavy post of timber, concrete, or steel, driven into the earth as a foundation or support for a structure.

An impressive body or group

(Heraldry) A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.

(Baseball) A pitcher and catcher considered as a unit.

A Roman javelin.

(Music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

Cut or uncut loops of yarn forming the surface of certain fabrics, such as velvet, plush, and carpeting.

A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

The surface so formed.

(legal) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.

Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.

(countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons.

To place or lay in a pile or heap

An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.

To load (something) with a heap or pile

An array of similar things.

To add or increase to abundance or to a point of burdensomeness

A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.

To form a heap or pile.

(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together

To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group

(chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

To drive piles into.

(music) A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.

To support with piles.

The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

(archaic) Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.

(informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

The act of battering or beating.

A mass formed in layers.

The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.

(slang) A large amount of money.

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

A large building, or mass of buildings.

A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

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 series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.

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.

The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.

The pitcher and catcher together.

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

Group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series

A list or league

A collection of related things intended for use together;

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher

The head of an arrow or spear.

A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores

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.

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target;

(heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact

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 lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

(transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

(transitive) To add something to a great number.

(transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

(transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

(transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

A covering of hair or fur.

The head of an arrow or spear.

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.

One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

A funeral pile; a pyre.

A large building, or mass of buildings.

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.

The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

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.

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

A collection of objects laid on top of each other

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit);

Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave;

A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

Arrange in stacks;

Press tightly together or cram;

Place or lay as if in a pile;