Pile up

Definition

pile 1 /paÇl/ n ၁။ အပံု။ a pile of books/clothes/wood ❍ a huge pile of dirty washing ❍ He arranged the notes in neat piles. ❍ She looked in horror at the mounting pile of correspondence. ၂။ (often pl ) ~ of sth ( infml ) တစ္ပံု တစ္ေခါင္း။ တစ္ပံုႀကီး။ companies sitting on a pile of cash ❍ I've got piles/a pile of work to do. ၃။ ( fml or joc ) ဘံုဗိမာန္။ tourists tramping round his ancestral pile. See also PILES v (က) ~ (sth (up) ပံုသည္။ She piled furniture into the spare room. ❍ Goods of every kind were piled around me. ❍ Pile the logs up outside the door. (ခ) ~ A in(to)/on(to) B; ~ B with A ပံုထားသည္။ ပံုေနသည္။ ၿပံဳထည့္သည္။ Pile plenty of coal on the fire. ❍ She piled everything into a suitcase and left. ❍ The sink was piled high with dishes. ❍ ( fig ) The situation grew more serious as blunder was piled on blunder. ❏ (the) bottom of the pile [ IDM ] အေရးမပါဆံုး အဆင့္။ အနိမ့္ဆံုးအဆင့္။ people at the bottom of the social pile. ❏ pile into sth/out of sth; pile in/out (of a number of people) [ PHRV ] ၿပံဳတက္၊ ၿပံဳဆင္းသည္။ The children piled noisily out of the bus. ❍ The taxi arrived and we all piled in. ❏ pile it on [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ဆိတ္တစ္အိတ္လုပ္သည္။ ပံုႀကီးခ်ဲ႕သည္။ It's probably not as bad as she says—she does tend to pile it on. ❏ pile on the agony [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘူးေလးရာ ဖ႐ံုဆင့္ သည္။ The latest tax increase is just piling on the agony. ❏ pile up [ PHRV ] စုၿပံဳလာသည္။ ပံုလာသည္။ Evidence was piling up against them. ❍ Her debts are piling up. ❏ pile-up n အစုလိုက္အၿပံဳလိုက္ ယာဥ္တိုက္မႈ။ Thick fog has caused several pile-ups on the motorway. ❏ (the) top of the pile [ IDM ] ထိပ္ဆံုးအဆင့္။ Top of the pile is the recording with Domingo. pile 2 /paÇl/ n (အေဆာက္အအံု၊ တံတား) ေအာက္ခံတိုင္။ pile moorings. ❏ pile-driver n ၁။ တိုင္႐ိုက္စက္။ ၂။ ျပင္းေသာ ထိုးခ်က္၊ ကန္ခ်က္စသည္။ pile 3 /paÇl/ n [U] ကတၱီပါ၊ ေကာ္ေဇာရိွ ထူသိပ္ေနေသာ အေမြးျပင္။ the thick pile of a bath towel ❍ a deep pile carpet. Compare NAP 2

Examples

1. She sorted her clothes into tidy piles.
2. [pile of] : A pile of books and papers
3. The rubbish lay in piles on the street.
4. [pile of] : The old house had been knocked down
5. and there was nothing left but piles of stones.
6. I’d got through piles of work before lunchtime.
7. He made a pile from his investments.