Definition of pile

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Pile (n.) 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..

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Pile :: Pile (n.) A large building, or mass of buildings..
Pilorhizae :: Pilorhizae (pl. ) of Pileorhiz.
Compilation :: Compilation (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents..
Radiomicrometer :: Radiomicrometer (n.) A very sensitive modification or application of the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or temperature..
Pilose :: Pilose (a.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.
Diagometer :: Diagometer (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power..
Coacervate :: Coacervate (a.) Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.
Collector :: Collector (n.) A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
Ram :: Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like..
Author :: Author (n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler..
Compile :: Compile (v. t.) To write; to compose.
Monkey :: Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging..
Demolition :: Demolition (n.) The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes..
Stack :: Stack (a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity..
Cairn :: Cairn (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc..
Hymnologist :: Hymnologist (n.) A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
Concordist :: Concordist (n.) The compiler of a concordance.
Guan :: Guan (n.) Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated..
Thermomultiplier :: Thermomultiplier (n.) Same as Thermopile.
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