PILING

n. body of buildings

v. place one on top of other, heap; accumulate, gather, collect

A deep foundation is a type of foundation. Deep foundations are distinguished from shallow foundations by the depth they are embedded into the ground. There are many reasons a geotechnical engineer would recommend a deep foundation over a shallow foundation, but some of the common reasons are very large design loads, a poor soil at shallow depth, or site constraints (like property lines). There are different terms used to describe different types of deep foundations including piles, drilled shafts, caissons, and piers. The naming conventions may vary between engineering disciplines and firms. Deep foundations can be made out of timber, steel, reinforced concrete and pre-tensioned concrete. Deep foundations can be installed by either driving them into the ground or drilling a shaft and filling it with concrete, mass or reinforced.
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Noun
1. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
(synonym) pile, spile, stilt
(hypernym) column, pillar
(hyponym) sheet pile, sheath pile, sheet piling

Noun
1. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
(synonym) heap, mound, cumulus
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(hyponym) compost heap, compost pile
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
(synonym) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
(hyponym) flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
(derivation) throng, mob, pack, jam
3. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
(synonym) bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money
(hypernym) money
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
4. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
(synonym) down
(hypernym) hair
(hyponym) lanugo
5. battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
(synonym) voltaic pile, galvanic pile
(hypernym) battery, electric battery
6. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
(synonym) spile, piling, stilt
(hypernym) column, pillar
(hyponym) sheet pile, sheath pile, sheet piling
7. the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"
(synonym) nap
(hypernym) thread, yarn
8. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
(synonym) atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor
(hypernym) nuclear reactor, reactor
Verb
1. arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
(synonym) stack, heap
(hypernym) arrange, set up
(hyponym) rick
(see-also) pile up, heap up, stack up
(derivation) heap, mound, cumulus
2. press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
(synonym) throng, mob, pack, jam
(hypernym) crowd, crowd together
(derivation) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
3. place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(derivation) heap, mound, cumulus

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Pile
  

(n.)
The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
  

(n.)
The act of heaping up.
  

(n.)
A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.
  

A set of posts forced into the earth to serve as a support, as for a pier, or to resist lateral pressure. (DOI4)