Italian-English translations for pila

pile
us
When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.a pile of shotThey were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow
battery
uk
us
Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.

heap
us
a heap of earth or stonesYou should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.My first car was an old heap.
power supplyThe utility will invest in power plants and transmission lines to ensure a stable power supply.
stackI have a whole stack of these cases on my desk and I admit that I would have fallen for most of them. Sulla mia scrivania c'è una pila di documenti relativi a tali truffe e devo dire che, nella maggior parte dei casi, mi sarei fatto raggirare anch'io. I do not want to have to say in four years' time, 'Look, this is a piece of paper from Ms Reding, and here is a huge stack of Parliament resolutions'. Non vorrei trovarmi costretto a dire, tra quattro anni, "ecco a voi un documento del Commissario Reding e una grossa pila di risoluzioni del Parlamento”. Ladies and gentlemen, I have this stack of paper in front of me, which gives you an idea of the amount of work we still have to get through this morning. Onorevoli colleghi, ho dianzi a me questa pila di fogli, che vi dà un'idea della mole di lavoro che abbiamo ancora da evadere questa mattina.