Difference between Pile and Nap

What is the difference between Pile and Nap?

Pile as a verb is to drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. while Nap as a verb is to have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

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.

Nap

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts best tips.A card game in which players take tricks; properly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.To be off one's guard.To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).To grab; to nab.To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).

Example sentence: I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life - lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.

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

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