pile (something) up

Examples of piling

piling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The evidence, or perhaps the rhetorical use of evidence, seems to be piling up.
Unlike steamboats, the piling up of bodies did not result from a few dramatic accidents.
The piling system uses a method of vibrating each pile into the ground - a less noisy method than traditional driven piles.
As it is hard work, knowing the optimum number and the time of piling is essential.
Here we see a 'piling-up' effect of a series of descriptors, and the result is an inclusive reading with an additive interpretation.
It creates a massive tension by piling up lots of disparate material, and at the point of maximum tension you hear a tam-tam.
What we can find ourselves doing instead, however, is piling induction on untested induction.
Otherwise, the equilibrium solution of (2.9) is simply the piling up of all modal energies on the upper truncation mode.
Some restriction on the starting state is necessary to prevent the process 'exploding', with infinitely many particles piling up at a single site.
The density diffusion prevents the extreme piling up of the isopycnal surfaces and allows the existence of a steady solution, preventing the generation of a singularity or a jet.
For if a higher pleasure only has a finite value, then that value sooner or later would be reached, if we started piling up lower pleasures.
A party which avoids piling up huge majorities in its safer constituencies while managing to win a disproportionate number by relatively small margins will benefit from efficiency bias.
While the diffusion halts the piling-up of isopycnals and prevents the generation of singularities and the jet, the strong buoyancy force generates a large vertical velocity.
This piling up of official notes could scarcely deceive the involved parties about the fact that to negotiate a modus vivendi to both sides' satisfaction was virtually impossible.
The inclusion of density diffusion would inhibit the extreme piling up of the density surface, and prevents the generation of the jet which would appear if the fluid is non-diffusive.
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