Pile may refer to:
- Pile foundation, type of deep foundation
- Pile (textile), fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn
- Carpet pile
- Nuclear pile, early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite
- Pile (heraldry), an ordinary in heraldry, a downward-pointing triangle
- Voltaic pile, first modern electric battery
- General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet
- Pile (data structure)
- An alternative to heap, e.g. a pile or heap of trash.
Piles can refer to:
- A common name for hemorrhoids
- Piles, Valencia, municipality in Spain
Famous quotes containing the word pile:
“Is a park any better than a coal mine? What’s a mountain got that a slag pile hasn’t? What would you rather have in your garden—an almond tree or an oil well?”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)
“it was older sure than this year’s cutting,
Or even last year’s or the year’s before.
The wood was gray and the bark warping off it
And the pile somewhat sunken. Clematis
Had wound strings round and round it like a bundle.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.”
—Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912)