Synonyms of the word

piling

• n. A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
• n. The act of heaping up.
• n. (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
• v. present participle of pile.

column

• n. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such…
• n. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
• n. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
• n. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent…
• n. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column…
• n. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single…
• n. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
• n. (botany) The gynostemium.
• n. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

pillar

• n. (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
• n. Something resembling such a structure.
• n. An essential part of something that provides support.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of…
• n. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
• v. To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.

spile

• n. (obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
• n. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
• n. (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
• v. To plug (a hole) with a spile.
• v. To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
• v. To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
• n. A pile; a post or girder.
• v. To support by means of spiles.
• v. (US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.

stilt

• n. Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by…
• n. A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
• n. Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have…
• n. A crutch.
• n. The handle of a plough.
• v. to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.