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Webster 1913 Edition
Piler
Pil′er
,Noun.
One who places things in a pile.
Webster 1828 Edition
Piler
PI'LER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
piler
piler
English
Noun
piler (plural pilers)
- One who piles something
- 2007 May 10, Penelope Green, “Order and Chaos in a Single Heartbeat”, in New York Times:
- Houses and photography sets seem to work better, he said, if “I exert a system of precision.” Ms. Ford, 33, said she is by nature a piler and stacker but has learned to follow what she described good-naturedly as “the Charlie Code.”
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.le/
Verb
piler
- (transitive, cooking) to crush
- (intransitive) to slam on the brakes of a vehicle, making it come to a sudden stop.
Conjugation
Conjugation of piler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | piler | avoir pilé | |||||
| gerund | en pilant | en ayant pilé | |||||
| present participle | pilant /pi.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | pilé /pi.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pile /pil/ |
piles /pil/ |
pile /pil/ |
pilons /pi.lɔ̃/ |
pilez /pi.le/ |
pilent /pil/ |
| imperfect | pilais /pi.lɛ/ |
pilais /pi.lɛ/ |
pilait /pi.lɛ/ |
pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/ |
piliez /pi.lje/ |
pilaient /pi.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | pilai /pi.le/ |
pilas /pi.la/ |
pila /pi.la/ |
pilâmes /pi.lam/ |
pilâtes /pi.lat/ |
pilèrent /pi.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | pilerai /pil.ʁe/ |
pileras /pil.ʁa/ |
pilera /pil.ʁa/ |
pilerons /pil.ʁɔ̃/ |
pilerez /pil.ʁe/ |
pileront /pil.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerait /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerions /pi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pileriez /pi.lə.ʁje/ |
pileraient /pil.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pile /pil/ |
piles /pil/ |
pile /pil/ |
pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/ |
piliez /pi.lje/ |
pilent /pil/ |
| imperfect1 |
pilasse /pi.las/ |
pilasses /pi.las/ |
pilât /pi.la/ |
pilassions /pi.la.sjɔ̃/ |
pilassiez /pi.la.sje/ |
pilassent /pi.las/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | pile /pil/ |
— | pilons /pi.lɔ̃/ |
pilez /pi.le/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
- pilon (“pestle”)