pile
Nouns
- (n) a collection of objects laid on top of each other cumulation, heap, agglomerate, cumulus, mound,
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(n) (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
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
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(n) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- she made a bundle selling real estate
- they sank megabucks into their new house
- (n) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) down,
- (n) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta galvanic pile, voltaic pile,
- (n) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure piling, spile, stilt,
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(n) 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
- (n) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor,
Verbs
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(v) arrange in stacks
- heap firewood around the fireplace
- stack your books up on the shelves
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(v) press tightly together or cram
- The crowd packed the auditorium
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(v) place or lay as if in a pile
- The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested