pile up: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- To accumulate or increase in quantity, number, or intensity over time (intransitive).
- To amass or collect items, obligations, or problems so that they form a growing total.
Examples
BetaThe snow continued to pile up throughout the night, making roads nearly impassable by morning.
The snow continued to pile up throughout the night, making roads nearly impassable by morning.
Work deadlines tend to pile up if you don’t manage your time carefully.
Work deadlines tend to pile up if you don’t manage your time carefully.
Complaints about the service began to pile up after the company ignored customer feedback.
Complaints about the service began to pile up after the company ignored customer feedback.
- To arrange or place things one on top of another; to stack (transitive or intransitive).
Examples
BetaShe piled up the books on the desk before starting her research.
She piled up the books on the desk before starting her research.
Boxes were piled up in the corner of the warehouse waiting for shipment.
Boxes were piled up in the corner of the warehouse waiting for shipment.
The children piled up the cushions to make a fort in the living room.
The children piled up the cushions to make a fort in the living room.
During the move, they piled up all the fragile items carefully to prevent damage.
During the move, they piled up all the fragile items carefully to prevent damage.
- To cause resources, debts, losses, or credits to accumulate (transitive): to amass or incur a large amount of something.
- To lay up or gather for later use (transitive).
Examples
BetaOver the months, the company piled up significant debt due to poor sales.
Over the months, the company piled up significant debt due to poor sales.
She piled up a collection of rare coins from all over the world.
She piled up a collection of rare coins from all over the world.
The bills began to pile up faster than he could pay them off.
The bills began to pile up faster than he could pay them off.
- Of vehicles or people, to collide or crash together in a mass (intransitive); to become involved in a multi-party crash or jam.
Examples
BetaThe highway was completely blocked after a massive pile up involving seven cars during the morning rush hour.
La autopista quedó completamente bloqueada tras un gran choque múltiple que involucró siete coches durante la hora punta de la mañana.
I heard there had been a pile up on the freeway, causing hours of delay for commuters.
Escuché que hubo un choque múltiple en la autopista, causando horas de retraso para los viajeros.
Because of the fog, several trucks pile up at the mountain pass every winter, making travel dangerous.
Debido a la niebla, varios camiones chocan en cadena en el paso montañoso cada invierno, haciendo que viajar sea peligroso.
Examples:
- EN: After all, you can't pile up six years of something, and then just leave it in a flash.ES: Después de todo, no puedes reunir seis años de algo y dejarlo en un santiamén.
- EN: The answer can't be just to pay bills or pile up more money.ES: La respuesta no puede ser sólo para pagar las facturas o ahorrar dinero.
- EN: But when they are combined in us to perform the normal functions of our bodies, they give off poisons which pile up a burden of decay which we call old age.ES: Pero cuando se combinan en nosotros, para el normal funcionamiento de nuestros cuerpos, emiten un veneno que por saturación termina por corromperse. Ese es lo que llamamos vejez.
- EN: You see, under a brotherhood plan like that... it'll be impossible for any one man to pile up a lot of goods... or have power over his neighbors.ES: Con un plan de cofradía como ése... será imposible que un solo hombre acumule muchos bienes... o tenga poder sobre sus vecinos.
- EN: Tables, boxes. Anything you can pile up where the ladder was.ES: Mesas, cajas.Apilen lo que puedan en lugar de la escalera.
- EN: You started married life on one, now you'll find one trick will pile up on another.ES: Una noche descubrirás que un truco se acumula sobre otro.
- EN: Things pile up in three days.ES: El trabajo se acumula en tres días.
- EN: Bad business, letting things pile up on your desk like that.ES: Tenía la mesa con un montón de asuntos como ese apilados.
- EN: Sometimes they pile up. Looks pretty bad.ES: A veces se amontonan y la cosa se pone muy fea.
- EN: 'Cash told you once that all the mistakes you had made 'were going to pile up and someday fall on you like a ton of slag.ES: Billetes te dijo que los errores que cometiste... se apilarían y te caerían encima como una tonelada de escombros.
- EN: I'm gonna pile up the Southern Cross.ES: Hundiré el Southern Cross.
- EN: No matter how many planes and tanks and guns you pile up, no matter how many men you got, it doesn't mean a thing, unless the men get the stuff when they need it.ES: Por más aviones, tanques y armas que tengas... por más soldados que haya... eso no sirve de nada si no recibes las provisiones a tiempo.
- EN: Things are really beginning to pile up on us.ES: Estábamos al borde de la desesperación.
- EN: That's where they pile up and go wild.ES: Allí es donde se amontonan y se alocan.
- EN: I'll bet you get a cold down-wind through here in the winter, pile up a lot of snow, too.ES: Seguro que en invierno se crean corrientes de aire aquí. Y también se acumula nieve.
- EN: After all, you can't pile up six years of something, and then just leave it in a flash.ES: Después de todo, no puedes reunir seis años de algo y dejarlo en un santiamén.
- EN: The answer can't be just to pay bills or pile up more money.ES: La respuesta no puede ser sólo para pagar las facturas o ahorrar dinero.
- EN: But when they are combined in us to perform the normal functions of our bodies, they give off poisons which pile up a burden of decay which we call old age.ES: Pero cuando se combinan en nosotros, para el normal funcionamiento de nuestros cuerpos, emiten un veneno que por saturación termina por corromperse. Ese es lo que llamamos vejez.
- EN: You see, under a brotherhood plan like that... it'll be impossible for any one man to pile up a lot of goods... or have power over his neighbors.ES: Con un plan de cofradía como ése... será imposible que un solo hombre acumule muchos bienes... o tenga poder sobre sus vecinos.
- EN: Tables, boxes. Anything you can pile up where the ladder was.ES: Mesas, cajas.Apilen lo que puedan en lugar de la escalera.
- EN: You started married life on one, now you'll find one trick will pile up on another.ES: Una noche descubrirás que un truco se acumula sobre otro.
- EN: Things pile up in three days.ES: El trabajo se acumula en tres días.
- EN: Bad business, letting things pile up on your desk like that.ES: Tenía la mesa con un montón de asuntos como ese apilados.
- EN: Sometimes they pile up. Looks pretty bad.ES: A veces se amontonan y la cosa se pone muy fea.
- EN: 'Cash told you once that all the mistakes you had made 'were going to pile up and someday fall on you like a ton of slag.ES: Billetes te dijo que los errores que cometiste... se apilarían y te caerían encima como una tonelada de escombros.
- EN: I'm gonna pile up the Southern Cross.ES: Hundiré el Southern Cross.
- EN: No matter how many planes and tanks and guns you pile up, no matter how many men you got, it doesn't mean a thing, unless the men get the stuff when they need it.ES: Por más aviones, tanques y armas que tengas... por más soldados que haya... eso no sirve de nada si no recibes las provisiones a tiempo.
- EN: Things are really beginning to pile up on us.ES: Estábamos al borde de la desesperación.
- EN: That's where they pile up and go wild.ES: Allí es donde se amontonan y se alocan.
- EN: I'll bet you get a cold down-wind through here in the winter, pile up a lot of snow, too.ES: Seguro que en invierno se crean corrientes de aire aquí. Y también se acumula nieve.
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