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Traducere în limba română
pile1 I. substantiv
1. grămadă; teanc (de monede, hârtii); pachet; mănunchi.
2. (şi funeral pile) rug.
3. clădire mare, edificiu.
4. (fam.) o grămadă de bani; stare; avere;
to make one’s pile a face avere; „a-şi lega calul de gard”.
5. (electr.) pilă electrică, baterie.
6. (mil.) piramidă (de puşti).
7. (agr.) snop.
8. (poligr.) stivă (de hârtie).
pile1 II. verb A. tranzitiv
1. (şi to pile up/ on) a aşeza, a pune grămadă, a îngrămădi;
(mil.) to pile arms a face piramide de puşti.
2. a aduna, a strânge, a acumula.
3. (with) a încărca (cu).
4. to pile it on a exagera;
to pile up sau on a încărca (cu detalii), a şarja;
(mar.) to pile up a ship a face vasul să eşueze pe un banc de nisip sau pe stânci.
pile1 II. verb B. intranzitiv
1. a strânge grămadă, a îngrămădi.
2. (into) a se îngrămădi (în).
pile2 I. substantiv
1. grindă; par, stâlp.
2. (fiz.) reactor; pilă.
3. (constr.) pilon.
pile2 II. verb tranzitiv
a înfige pari sau stâlpi în.
pile3 substantiv
1. păr (la animale, stofă); puf.
2. lână.
3. fir (la covor).
pile4 substantiv
(mai ales pl.) (med.) hemoroizi.
pile5 substantiv
(rar.) pajură, dosul monedei;
cross or pile cap sau pajură.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
When Lord Godalming got his and turned it over—it does make a pretty good pile—he said:—Did you write all this, Mrs. Harker?
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
There is a pile of clouds in the east, it's not fair, and I don't go.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The idea of the will, which would give an obvious motive for the crime, the secret visit unknown to his own parents, the retention of the stick, the blood, and the animal remains and buttons in the wood-pile, all were admirable.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to nothing.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lumber-room to look for some old iron, that he might sell it and raise a little money; and there, instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on the floor.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
The distance had been measured off, and as he neared the pile of firewood which marked the end of the hundred yards, a cheer began to grow and grow, which burst into a roar as he passed the firewood and halted at command.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
Well, last Monday evening I was taking a stroll down that way, when I met an empty van coming up the lane, and saw a pile of carpets and things lying about on the grass-plot beside the porch.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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