The difference between Lot and Pile
When used as nouns, lot means a large quantity or number, whereas pile means a mass of things heaped together.
When used as verbs, lot means to allot, whereas pile means to lay or throw into a pile or heap.
check bellow for the other definitions of Lot and Pile
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Lot as a noun:
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Examples:
"to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so"
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Lot as a noun:
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
Examples:
"a lot of stationery"
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Lot as a noun:
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
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Lot as a noun (informal):
A number of people taken collectively.
Examples:
"a sorry lot; a bad lot'"
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Lot as a noun:
A distinct portion or of land, usually smaller than a field.
Examples:
"a building lot in a city"
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Lot as a noun:
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
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Lot as a noun:
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
Examples:
"to cast lots; to draw lots'"
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Lot as a noun:
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
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Lot as a noun:
A prize in a lottery.
Examples:
"rfquotek Evelyn"
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Lot as a noun:
Allotment; lottery.
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Lot as a noun (definite, '''the lot'''):
All members of a set; everything.
Examples:
"The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot."
"If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them."
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Lot as a noun:
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
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Lot as a verb (transitive, dated):
To allot; to sort; to apportion.
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Lot as a verb (US, informal, dated):
To count or reckon (on or upon).
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Pile as a noun:
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
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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."
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Pile as a noun:
A mass formed in layers.
Examples:
"a pile of shot"
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Pile as a noun:
A funeral pile; a pyre.
Examples:
"rfquotek Dryden"
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Pile as a noun:
A large building, or mass of buildings.
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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.
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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.
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Pile as a noun:
An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
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Pile as a noun (obsolete):
The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
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Pile as a noun (figuratively):
A list or league
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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."
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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."
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Pile as a verb (transitive):
To add something to a great number.
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Pile as a verb (transitive):
(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
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Pile as a verb (transitive, military):
To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
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Pile as a noun (obsolete):
A dart; an arrow.
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Pile as a noun:
The head of an arrow or spear.
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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.
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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.
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Pile as a verb (transitive):
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
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Pile as a noun (usually in plural):
A hemorrhoid.
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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.)
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Pile as a noun:
The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.