Muster vs Pile - What's the difference?

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Muster is a related term of pile.

As nouns the difference between muster and pile

is that muster is example while pile is diligence.

muster

English

Noun

(en noun)

Gathering.

# An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

#* 1743 , Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. :

She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.

#* Macaulay

Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.

#* 1920 , Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia , Issue 13,

The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual.

#* 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 :

Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.

#* 1663 , Samuel Pepys, Diary , 4 Jul 1663:

And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen

# The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

#* Wyclif

The muster was thirty thousands of men.

#* Hooker

Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.

# (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.

#* 2006 , John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos! , Boolarong Press:

McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.

Showing.

# (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

# (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.

#* 1590 , Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia , Book III:

Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].

#* 1647 , Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth , Act 2:

And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.

# A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).

Derived terms

* pass muster * bangtail muster

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To show, exhibit.

To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.

To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.

(US) To enroll (into service).

Synonyms

* (l)

Derived terms

* muster in * muster out * muster up

References

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Anagrams

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pile

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) . Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

The head of an arrow or spear.

A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

* {{quote-book, year=1719

, edition=10th edition , year_published=1864 , author= , title= , chapter= , section=Chapter VI citation , page=68 , passage=All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.}}

(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

Derived terms

* pile bridge * pile cap * pile driver * pile dwelling * pile engine * pile plank * pneumatic pile * screw pile

Verb

(pil)

To drive s into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

Etymology 2

Apparently from pilus.

Noun

(en noun)

(usually in plural) A hemorrhoid.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) pile, (pille), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

* {{quote-book, year=1889

, author= , title= , volume_plain=Book II: The Fall of Harmachis , section=Chapter XI citation , isbn=1555211224 , page= , passage=I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.}}

(figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

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 .

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=December 29 , author=Keith Jackson , title=SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0 , work=Daily Record citation , page= , passage=And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.}}

A mass formed in layers.

a pile of shot

A funeral pile; a pyre.

(Dryden)

A large building, or mass of buildings.

* Dryden

The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.

* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , II.2:

The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture

* Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved

It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor

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, 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.

(obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

(figuratively) A list or league

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Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(pil)

To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood.

To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

To add something to a great number.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC

, title= Sunderland 0-2 Blackpool , passage=But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages. }}

(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

(military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

Etymology 4

Partly from (etyl) pil (a variant of peil, .

Noun

(en noun)

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.

* (William Cowper)

Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile .

Anagrams

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