pile-up in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for pile-up in the English»Italian Dictionary

pile-up [Brit ˈpʌɪlʌp, Am ˈpaɪlˌəp] N MOTOR

pile-up inf

tamponamento m (a catena)

multiple pile-up [ˌmʌltɪplˈpaɪlʌp] N

multiple pile-up

tamponamento m a catena

I.pile up VB [pʌɪl -] (pile up)

pile up

ammonticchiarsi

pile up

accumularsi

pile up (in accident)

tamponarsi

II.pile up VB [pʌɪl -] (pile [sth] up, pile up [sth])

1. pile up:

pile up (in a heap)

ammucchiare

pile up (in a stack)

impilare

to be piled up books, plates:

essere impilati (on su)

2. pile up fig debts, evidence, problems, work:

pile up

accumulare

Translations for pile-up in the Italian»English Dictionary

maxitamponamento [maksitamponaˈmento] N m

maxitamponamento

pile-up

carambola² [kaˈrambola] N f

1. carambola (colpo del billiardo):

carambola

cannon Brit

carambola

carom Am

2. carambola games (gioco del biliardo):

carambola (all'italiana)

= carom (billiards)

carambola (all'americana)

eight-ball

3. carambola (scontro di auto):

carambola

pile-up

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary

ammonticchiare

to pile up

ammonticchiarsi

to pile up

accatastare

to pile (up)

accatastare

to pile (up)

accastellare

to pile up

impilare

to pile (up)

affastellare

to pile (up)

pile-up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for pile-up in the English»Italian Dictionary

pileup [ˈpaɪl·ʌp] N

pileup

tamponamento m

I.pile up VB intr

1. pile up (accumulate):

pile up

accumularsi

2. pile up (form a pile):

pile up

accatastarsi

II.pile up VB trans

pile up

accumulare

Translations for pile-up in the Italian»English Dictionary

tamponamento [tam·po·na·ˈmen·to] N m

1. tamponamento (di veicoli):

tamponamento

collision

tamponamento a catena

pile-up

2. tamponamento (di ferita):

tamponamento

packing

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary

carambola

pileup

ammucchiare

to pile up

ammassare

to pile up

ammassarsi

to pile up

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The club said its display had ended by 8:15pm, 10 minutes before the pile-up.

www.abc.net.au

The former athlete maintains she was not speeding or doing anything wrong at the time of the pile-up.

www.torontosun.com

The incident caused a traffic pile-up in the area as police and curious onlookers gathered at the scene.

www.jamaicaobserver.com

The incident resulted in a massive pile-up of traffic along the busy thoroughfare.

www.jamaicaobserver.com

A related issue is that humans tend to drive too close together - a car braking too rapidly will almost certainly cause a pile-up.

www.gizmodo.com.au

Maybe the end of the world will just be everyone crashing into each other and ending up in a big human pile-up.

www.crawleynews.co.uk

To watch from the sidelines is to feel the guilty relief of a driver who has narrowly avoided a freeway pile-up.

www.macleans.ca

If a multiple fatal pile-up had occurred as a result of this dog, then that would be the fault of the police too.

www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk

His analysis reveals the pile-up of risks that will precipitate the next global financial meltdown.

www.dailyreckoning.com.au

But, as the pile-up of ill patients on trolleys showed last week, the group failed to deliver.

www.independent.ie