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| 1. | [ noun ] a collection of objects laid on top of each other | |
| Synonyms: | heap mound cumulus | |
| Related terms: | collection stack woodpile shock dunghill scrapheap pyre stockpile compost_heap slagheap stack accumulate throng | |
| 2. | [ verb ] arrange in stacks | |
| Synonyms: | heap stack | |
| Examples: | "heap firewood around the fireplace" "stack your books up on the shelves" |
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| Related terms: | arrange rick cord pile_up pile_up pile_up stack stacker | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | |
| Synonyms: | mass lot good_deal great_deal heap plenty sight whole_lot deal flock mint quite_a_little raft pot slew stack mickle mess wad spate whole_slew tidy_sum muckle peck hatful batch | |
| Examples: | : "a batch of letters" "a deal of trouble" "a lot of money" "he made a mint on the stock market" "it must have cost plenty" |
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| Related terms: | large_indefinite_quantity flood jam heap | |
| 4. | [ verb ] press tightly together or cram | |
| Synonyms: | throng jam pack mob | |
| Examples: | "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
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| Related terms: | crowd batch multitude | |
| 5. | [ noun ] a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | |
| Synonyms: | big_money bundle megabucks big_bucks | |
| Examples: | "she made a bundle selling real estate" "they sank megabucks into their new house" |
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| Related terms: | money cant | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (medicine) pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter | |
| Synonyms: | hemorrhoid piles haemorrhoid | |
| Related terms: | pain | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (physics,electricity) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta | |
| Synonyms: | voltaic_pile galvanic_pile | |
| Related terms: | battery | |
| 8. | [ verb ] place or lay as if in a pile | |
| Examples: | "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" |
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| Related terms: | situate put | |
| 9. | [ noun ] the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave | |
| Synonyms: | nap | |
| Examples: | "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction" |
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| Related terms: | yarn | |
| 10. | [ noun ] fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | |
| Synonyms: | down | |
| Related terms: | hair lanugo | |
| 11. | [ noun ] (architecture) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | |
| Synonyms: | stilt piling spile | |
| Related terms: | column sheet_pile | |
| 12. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 31344 | |
| 13. | [ noun ] (physics,nuclear physics) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy | |
| Synonyms: | atomic_reactor chain_reactor atomic_pile | |
| Related terms: | nuclear_reactor | |
| Similar spelling: |
Pille Pilea pill Piel Pilla Piehl pillow Pillai Pili |
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