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Pile

noun

1.

A collection of objects laid on top of each other. Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound.

2.

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad. "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"

3.

A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit). Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks. "They sank megabucks into their new house"

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.

5.

Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile.

6.

A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt.

7.

The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave. Synonym: nap.

8.

A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy. Synonyms: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor.

verb

(past & past part. piled; pres. part. piling)

1.

Arrange in stacks. Synonyms: heap, stack. "Stack your books up on the shelves"

2.

Press tightly together or cram. Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng.

3.

Place or lay as if in a pile.

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"Pile" Quotes from Famous Books

... by those who have as a symptom of proctitis a large development of pile tumors or hemorrhoids (distended mucous membrane). The objection is that at times these tumors or sacs prolapse very freely during the act of expelling the injected water. But this prolapse occurs in many cases whether water ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... French trooper, so new and fresh from the workshop that the white cambric lining was hardly soiled. The figure 18 was on the collar; we decided that its wearer must have belonged to the Eighteenth Cavalry Regiment. Behind the barn we found a whole pile of new knapsacks—the flimsy play-soldier knapsacks of the French infantrymen, not half so heavy or a third so substantial as the heavy sacks of the Germans, which are all bound with straps and covered on the back side ...

— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb

... on top of the pile was the cake with the ten wrapped around it! I jumped over the rest to shove my five (two weeks' farm work) in his hands and grab that bill cake. But the bill disappeared. I never knew where it went. ...

— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... convinced me (stand a little more out of the sun if you please) that thou hast not the least notion of true honour."—Fielding. "Whither art going, pretty Annette? Your little feet you'll surely wet."—L. M. Child. "Metellus, who conquered Macedon, was carried to the funeral pile by his four sons, one of which was the praetor."—Kennett's Roman Ant., p. 332. "That not a soldier which they did not know, should mingle himself among them."— Josephus, Vol. v, p. 170. "The Neuter Gender denotes objects which are neither males nor females."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... of fact, the worthy banker had come all the way from Paris (and there was no railway communication between the two places then, remember) on purpose to convince himself with his own eyes, whether the old Nabob, on whose skin he had staked such a pile of money, was really going to die ...

— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

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