Difference between Agglomerate and Pile

What is the difference between Agglomerate and Pile?

Agglomerate as a verb is to wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. while Pile as a verb is to drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

Agglomerate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A collection or mass. A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate. An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.

Pile

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood.To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.To add something to a great number.(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A dart; an arrow.The head of an arrow or spear.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.One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.A hemorrhoid.A mass of things heaped together; a heapA mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.A funeral pile; a pyre.A large building, or mass of buildings.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.A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.The reverse (or tails) of a coin.Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.

Example sentence: I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

We hope you now know whether to use Agglomerate or Pile in your sentence.

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