pile

A pile is a vertical stack of material. There are many different things that are found in a pile:

He’s sitting on a pile of books. The books are in a pile.
Someone is using a shovel to move a pile of dirt.
She has a pile of laundry to do. The clothes are piled in a laundry basket. (This sentence uses "pile" as a verb.)
There’s a pile of work on her desk. She’s buried under a pile of paper work.

There’s something underneath this pile of snow.

This word can also be used as a verb:

• Traffic piles up on the highways during rush hour.
• Debt piles up when a person doesn’t have enough money to pay the bills.
• Snow piles up on roads and highways during a snowstorm.
• Your boss might pile on the work at your job.
• A person who is really hungry will pile a lot of food onto a plate.

Published on December 11, 2017