PILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piling mean? 

• PILING (noun)
  The noun PILING has 1 sense:

1. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

  Familiarity information: PILING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pile; piling; spile; stilt

Hypernyms ("piling" is a kind of...):

column; pillar ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piling"):

sheath pile; sheet pile; sheet piling (a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage)

 Context examples 

They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With planets piling up in your twelfth house of solitude, you seem to have a need to be alone more than usual so you can think, and strategize, about the year ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All the water going into the Earth at subduction zones must be coming back up somehow, not continuously piling up inside the Earth.

(Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior, National Science Foundation)

Meg was already covering the buckwheats, and piling the bread into one big plate.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had no stamps with which to continue them on their travels, and for a week they had been piling up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first half-hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be further from the door.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To wit, in manner following, that is to say: Again, Mr. Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say, not at all peculiar to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)