Pile vs Surface - What's the difference?
pile | surface | Synonyms |
(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.
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(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
To drive s into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
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(figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
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A mass formed in layers.
A funeral pile; a pyre.
A large building, or mass of buildings.
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* Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
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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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.
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, title= (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.
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.
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The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
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, title= (lb) Outward or external appearance.
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*:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
(lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
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To provide something with a surface.
To apply a surface to something.
To rise to the surface.
To come out of hiding.
For information or facts to become known.
To work a mine near the surface.
To appear or be found.
In transitive terms the difference between pile and surface
is that pile is (of vehicles) To create a hold-up while surface is to apply a surface to something.pile
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Cognate with Dutch pijl, German Pfeil.Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* pile bridge * pile cap * pile driver * pile dwelling * pile engine * pile plank * pneumatic pile * screw pileVerb
(pil)Etymology 2
Apparently from pilus.Etymology 3
From (etyl) pile, (pille), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)citation, isbn=1555211224 , page= , passage=I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.}}
- 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 .
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 pile of shot
- (Dryden)
- The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
- The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture
- 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
- 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 alsoVerb
(pil)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.}}
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. }}
Etymology 4
Partly from (etyl) pil (a variant of peil, .Noun
(en noun)- Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile .
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----surface
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}
