The difference between Amass and Pile

When used as nouns, amass means a mass, whereas pile means a mass of things heaped together.

When used as verbs, amass means to collect into a mass or heap, whereas pile means to lay or throw into a pile or heap.


check bellow for the other definitions of Amass and Pile

  1. Amass as a verb (transitive):

    To collect into a mass or heap

  2. Amass as a verb (transitive):

    to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.

    Examples:

    "to amass a treasure or a fortune"

    "to amass words or phrases"

  1. Amass as a noun (obsolete):

    A mass; a heap.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir H. Wotton"

  1. Pile as a noun:

    A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

  2. Pile as a noun (figuratively, informal):

    A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

    Examples:

    "When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile."

  3. Pile as a noun:

    A mass formed in layers.

    Examples:

    "a pile of shot"

  4. Pile as a noun:

    A funeral pile; a pyre.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  5. Pile as a noun:

    A large building, or mass of buildings.

  6. Pile as a noun:

    A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.

  7. Pile as a noun:

    A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

  8. Pile as a noun:

    An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

  9. Pile as a noun (obsolete):

    The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

  10. Pile as a noun (figuratively):

    A list or league

  1. Pile as a verb (transitive, often used with the preposition "up"):

    To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

    Examples:

    "They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow."

  2. Pile as a verb (transitive):

    To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

    Examples:

    "We piled the camel with our loads."

  3. Pile as a verb (transitive):

    To add something to a great number.

  4. Pile as a verb (transitive):

    (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

  5. Pile as a verb (transitive, military):

    To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

  1. Pile as a noun (obsolete):

    A dart; an arrow.

  2. Pile as a noun:

    The head of an arrow or spear.

  3. Pile as a noun:

    A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

  4. Pile as a noun (heraldiccharge):

    One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

  1. Pile as a verb (transitive):

    To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

  1. Pile as a noun (usually in plural):

    A hemorrhoid.

  1. Pile as a noun:

    Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

  2. Pile as a noun:

    The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.