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A 'Pile' is a type of deep foundation.
'Pile' can also refer to a number of different things:

★ Carpet pile, a measure of the fibre length in carpets

★ Country pile, a stately home or large country house

★ Nuclear pile, early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite

★ Pile (heraldry), an ordinary, a downward-pointing triangle reaching from the top of the shield to its bottom, and occupying its full width

★ Voltaic pile, the first modern electric battery

★ The Pile, a name for the wreckage at the World Trade Center site after 11 September 2001

★ General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet
'Piles' can refer to:

★ a common name for hemorrhoids;

★ Piles, Valencia, a municipality in Spain;