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Pylon vs. Pile — What's the Difference?

Pylon vs. Pile — What's the Difference?

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Pylon

A movable, brightly colored cone or shaft of rubber that is used to signal something to be avoided, such as a hazard or work zone on a roadway.

Pile

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

Pylon

(Football) A flexible, usually padded marker that stands upright at each corner of the end zone to facilitate judgments of close plays.

Pile

A large accumulation or quantity
A pile of work to do.

Pylon

A tower marking a turning point in a race among aircraft.
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Pile

A large amount of money
Made a pile in the real estate boom.

Pylon

A steel tower supporting high-tension wires.

Pile

A nuclear reactor.

Pylon

A tower or shaft supporting a wind turbine.

Pile

A voltaic pile.

Pylon

A structure supporting a bridge deck.

Pile

A very large building or complex of buildings.

Pylon

A large structure or group of structures marking an entrance or approach.

Pile

A funeral pyre.

Pylon

A monumental gateway in the form of a pair of tapered blocks serving as the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple.

Pile

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

Pylon

A structure that attaches an aircraft engine to a plane's wing or fuselage.

Pile

(Heraldry) A wedge-shaped charge pointing downward.

Pylon

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

Pile

A Roman javelin.

Pylon

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

Pile

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

Pylon

(architecture) A tall steel or concrete tower from which cables are strung.

Pile

The surface so formed.

Pylon

A lighting mast; a freestanding support for floodlights.

Pile

Soft fine hair, fur, or wool.

Pylon

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

Pile

To place or lay in a pile or heap
Piled books onto the table.

Pylon

A starting derrick for an aeroplane.

Pile

To load (something) with a heap or pile
Piled the table with books.

Pylon

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

Pile

To add or increase to abundance or to a point of burdensomeness
Piled homework on the students.

Pylon

An obelisk.

Pile

To form a heap or pile.

Pylon

A traffic cone.

Pile

To move in, out, or forward in a disorderly mass or group
Pile into a bus.
Pile out of a car.

Pylon

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

Pile

To drive piles into.

Pylon

(medicine) A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.

Pile

To support with piles.

Pylon

A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front.

Pile

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

Pylon

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

Pile

(informal) 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

Pylon

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

Pile

A mass formed in layers.
A pile of shot

Pylon

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

Pile

A funeral pile; a pyre.

Pylon

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

Pile

(slang) A large amount of money.
He made a pile from that invention of his.

Pylon

A large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines;
Power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists

Pile

A large building, or mass of buildings.

Pile

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.

Pile

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.

Pile

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

Pile

An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

Pile

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

Pile

A list or league

Pile

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

Pile

The head of an arrow or spear.

Pile

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.

Pile

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

Pile

A hemorrhoid.

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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.

Pile

(transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
We piled the camel with our loads.

Pile

(transitive) To add something to a great number.

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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.

Pile

A covering of hair or fur.

Pile

The head of an arrow or spear.

Pile

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.

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

A funeral pile; a pyre.

Pile

A large building, or mass of buildings.
The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.

Pile

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.

Pile

The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

Pile

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

Pile

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.

Pile

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

Pile

A collection of objects laid on top of each other

Pile

(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

Pile

A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit);
She made a bundle selling real estate
They sank megabucks into their new house

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

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

Pile

A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

Pile

Arrange in stacks;
Heap firewood around the fireplace
Stack your books up on the shelves

Pile

Press tightly together or cram;
The crowd packed the auditorium

Pile

Place or lay as if in a pile;
The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested

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