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Piles   /paɪlz/   Listen
Piles

noun
1.
Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter.  Synonyms: haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid.
2.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"


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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"Piles" Quotes from Famous Books



... make a fine show of their goods. The Indian shopkeeper does nothing of the sort. He simply piles his goods round his shop and squats in the midst of them. There he sits waiting for people ...
— Highroads of Geography • Anonymous
... of the reading Miss Celia could ask any she liked, or add any explanations which seemed necessary. In this way much pleasure and profit was extracted from the tales Ben and Thorny read, and much unexpected knowledge as well as ignorance displayed, not to mention piles of neatly hemmed towels for which Bab and Betty were paid like ...
— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott
... from them, and deposited them in separate heaps, on a newly ploughed field. The very doors and window shutters had been torn off and carried into the field, several acres of which were strewed over with piles of such furniture. Mr. C. was scarcely less struck with this scene than we were, and he assured us that he had never known such providence manifested on a similar ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... good only for the life of the work—rested on a set of stringers laid on extra piles driven outside of the working-platform. When the submarine work lies miles from shore, a shanty is the only shelter for the men, its interior being arranged with sleeping-bunks, with one end partitioned off ...
— Tom Grogan • F. Hopkinson Smith
... world of spirits still held men's minds in so close a bondage that thousands were, according to their own conviction, given up as a prey to the devil; while, at the command of religion as well as of law, countless piles were lighted, by the flames of which human society ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various


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