Difference between Pile and Mound

What is the difference between Pile and Mound?

Pile as a verb is to drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. while Mound as a verb is to force or pile into a mound or mounds.

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 heap A 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: A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Mound

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart.A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.The place where the pitcher stands to pitch.A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.Vulva.

Example sentence: I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

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

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