(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g., skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
I'm going to have to stay up all night to finish this pile of work I have.Tengo que trabajar toda la noche para terminar el mont贸n de trabajo que tengo.
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
You could make a voltaic pile from two coins, paper towel, water, and salt.Podr铆as fabricar una pila el茅ctrica con dos monedas, papel toalla, agua y sal.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).
I had to take grandma to buy socks, so the whole family had to pile into the car for the ride.Tuve que llevar a la abuela a comprar calcetines, as铆 que toda la familia tuvo que api帽arse en el auto para el viaje.
piles
A plural noun indicates that there is more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
Andrea sits on a special cushion at work to avoid getting piles.Andrea se sienta sobre un coj铆n especial en el trabajo para evitar sufrir de almorranas.
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
to have piles of or a pile of work to dotener un mont贸n de trabajo que hacer
4.(fam fig)
a.
to be at the top/bottom of the pileestar en lo m谩s alto/bajo de la escala
5.(of carpet)
a. el pelo
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
to pile into a carmeterse atropelladamente en un coche or
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pile[paɪl]
noun
1(heap)[of books, clothes]montón (m)
the clothes were folded in a neat pilesort your dirty washing into piles/the dirty plates were stacked in a pile/ on the draining boarda pile of sandthere's a pile of bills on my deska little pile of crumbshe threw more wood onto the pilea pile of old tin cansthe leaves had been swept into huge pilesa pile of boxeswe sat in Sam's study, among the piles of bookshe picked up one of the papers, which were now in an untidy pileI just leave one big pile of washing up, I'm afraid
to put things in a pileamontonar cosas;juntar cosas en un montón
he was putting the building bricks in little piles on the floorshe put the letters in a pile
the building was reduced to a pile of rubbleel edificio quedó reducido a un montón or una pila de escombros
to be at the bottom of the pile \COB2the recession is hitting people hard, and not just those at the bottom of the pilewhen it comes to being offered a job, older people are at the bottom of the pileto be at the top of the pileit's been 20 years since a British player was top of the pilewith the money and influential friends they had they soon got to the top of the pilepeople who have fought their way to the top of the human pile
2(large amount)montón (informal) (m)
I've got piles of work to dotengo un montón or tengo montones de trabajo que hacer (informal)
we received a pile of mailhe's got a pile of piles of money stashed awayI've got a pile of questions afterwards for youa whole pile of disasters
3(fortune)dineral (informal) (m);fortuna (f)
he has made a fortune, a very sizable pile, in his businessto [make] a pile
he made a pile on this dealganó un dineral or una fortuna con el trato;se hizo de oro con el trato
my brother made a pile selling videosthey're the sort who'd expect a son-in-law to have made a pile for himself before requesting their daughter's handto make [one's] pile
he made his pile in oilhizo su fortuna con el petróleo
I didn't make my pile by being taken for a foola Scotsman who made his pile from trading with Victoria's gold miners
4(building)mole (f)(humorous)
some stately pile in the countryuna mole de casa or un caserón en el campo
Badminton, the Duke of Beaufort's Palladian pileit was a huge grey pile in nineteenth-century Gothicold red brick pile of a schoola 255-room pile of stone in the style of a Loire chateauthe Victorian pile of the Town Hall was floodlithe lives in a big pile in West Sussex when he's not here in the City
he piled the plates onto the trayamontonó or apiló los platos en la bandeja;we piled more coal on the fireechamos más carbón al fuego
the tables were piled high with fooden las mesas había montones or montañas de comida
her hair was piled high on her headllevaba el pelo recogido con un tocado alto
I piled the children into the carmetí a los niños apretujados en el coche
she piled the books (up) on top of each otherpile the mixture into four glasses and servea few newspapers and magazines were piled on a tabletrucks piled with luggagehe was piling clothes into a suitcasehe piled his luggage into the back of a taxihe piled the plates into the sinkthey brought me a plate piled high with Italian salami
intransitive verb
1(squeeze)
we all piled into the carnos metimos todos apretujados en el coche
we piled off the bussalimos en avalancha or en tropel del autobús
they piled onto the busse metieron apretujados en el autobús
they piled [out] of the taxiwe piled [through] the door
2(attack)
they piled into himse abalanzaron sobre él
he gave a wild yell and then piled into his opponent
3(crash)
his car piled into the treesu coche se estrelló contra el árbol
12 cars had piled into each other12 coches se habían estrellado en cadena
pile[paɪl]
noun
(Constr)pilote (m);pilar (m)
the house has to be built on piles which are sunk down through the top layer of the soilthe weedy piles of the pier loomed out of the growing darksettlements of wooden houses, set on piles along the shorewe stopped in the middle of a small village on piles, in the middle of the swamp
modifier
pile driver (n)martinete (m)
the clang of pile drivers rings out day and night as contractors push pilings through a thousand feet of sand
pile dwelling (n)(Hist)vivienda (f) construida sobre pilotes
pile[paɪl]
noun
[of carpet, cloth]pelo (m)
I wanted something with a deeper/thicker pilecarpet with a deep pileher feet sank into the deep pile of the lounge carpetthe pile on the hall carpet was immaculately fluffed upthe pile is wearing thindeep-pile fabrics, known as fun fur
