A pile is a group of things stacked on top of each other.
When we talk about a pile, it's usually referring to something in our environment - at home, in the office, or even outside. For example, if you walk into your living room and see clothes scattered all over the floor, you might say "There's a big pile of laundry here." It could also be things like books on a shelf that have been knocked down, making it hard to put them back. Sometimes piles can be messy and need cleaning up, but they can also be useful - like a pile of firewood for a fireplace or a stack of boxes waiting to be unpacked in your new apartment.
How common is "pile"?
Word pile is considered uncommon in modern English. It appears most frequently in fiction texts and less often in other writings.
Definitions
noun
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
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verb
(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.
