Pylon vs. Pile

Pylonnoun

A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.

Pilenoun

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

Pylonnoun

(electricity) A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.

Pilenoun

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

‘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.’;

Pylonnoun

(aviation) A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.

Pilenoun

A mass formed in layers.

‘a pile of shot’;

Pylonnoun

A starting derrick for an aeroplane.

Pilenoun

A funeral pile; a pyre.

Pylonnoun

A post, tower, etc. as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.

Pilenoun

A large building, or mass of buildings.

Pylonnoun

An obelisk.

Pylonnoun

A traffic cone.

Pilenoun

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.

Pylonnoun

(American football) An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.

Pilenoun

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

Pylonnoun

(medicine) A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.

Pilenoun

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

Pylonnoun

A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.

‘Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front.’;

Pilenoun

(figuratively) A list or league

Pylonnoun

An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).

Pilenoun

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

Pylonnoun

A tower, commonly of steelwork, for supporting either end of a wire, as for a telegraph line, over a long span.

Pilenoun

The head of an arrow or spear.

Pylonnoun

Formerly, a starting derrick (the use of which is now abandoned) for an aeroplane.

Pilenoun

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.

Pylonnoun

a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race

Pilenoun

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

Pylonnoun

a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines;

‘power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists’;

Pilenoun

A hemorrhoid.

Pilenoun

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

Pilenoun

The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

Pileverb

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

‘They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.’;

Pileverb

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

‘We piled the camel with our loads.’;

Pileverb

(transitive) To add something to a great number.

Pileverb

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

Pileverb

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

Pileverb

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

Pileverb

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

Pilenoun

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

‘Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.’;

Pilenoun

A covering of hair or fur.

Pilenoun

The head of an arrow or spear.

Pilenoun

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.

Pilenoun

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

Pilenoun

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

Pilenoun

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

Pilenoun

A funeral pile; a pyre.

Pilenoun

A large building, or mass of buildings.

‘The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.’;

Pilenoun

Same as Fagot, n., 2.

Pilenoun

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.

Pilenoun

The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

Pileverb

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

Pileverb

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.

‘The labor of an age in piled stones.’;

Pileverb

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

Pilenoun

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

Pilenoun

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

‘a batch of letters’; ‘a deal of trouble’; ‘a lot of money’; ‘he made a mint on the stock market’; ‘it must have cost plenty’;

Pilenoun

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

‘she made a bundle selling real estate’; ‘they sank megabucks into their new house’;

Pilenoun

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

Pilenoun

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

Pilenoun

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

Pilenoun

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

‘for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction’;

Pilenoun

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

Pileverb

arrange in stacks;

‘heap firewood around the fireplace’; ‘stack your books up on the shelves’;

Pileverb

press tightly together or cram;

‘The crowd packed the auditorium’;

Pileverb

place or lay as if in a pile;

‘The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested’;