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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

... rejected the Projectile theory with the most serene contempt—were filled with the same idea, all hearts throbbed with the same emotion. Wouldn't it be glorious to fish them up alive and well? What were they doing just now? Doing? Doing! Their bodies most probably were lying in a shapeless pile on the floor of the Projectile, like a heap of clothes, the uppermost man being the last smothered; or perhaps floating about in the water inside the Projectile, like dead gold fish in an aquarium; or perhaps burned to a cinder, like papers in ...

— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne

... the doorway, for the smell and appearance of the ill-ventilated place were too suggestive of a butcher's business to make it inviting; but he had taken in at a glance a pile of deal cases, a block with knives, chopper, and saw, and the heads, antlers, and skins of a couple of ...

— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn

... time with more agonizing force, like an increasing wave, and as one flood washed over him with fiercer passion than the others, the boy rose hurriedly, ran around the barn, and flung himself upon a pile of hay. There he gave way to a storm of sobs. One of the group, who had been watching him more closely than the others, soon withdrew from the game, and going in the opposite direction from that taken by Bud Perkins, came ...

— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White

... we will but look, to remove every want, to quench all thirst, to bring satisfaction and sufficiency; and this they do to every man in the beginning, confirming promise to a certain point in their increase, and then, as soon as their pile rises, in place of contentment and refreshment they bring on an intolerable fever-thirst; and beyond sufficiency, they extend their limit, create a desire to amass more, and, with this, fear and anxiety far in excess of ...

— The Banquet (Il Convito) • Dante Alighieri

... blood Glowed Frederekshal; Illum'd its own men's courage proud, And Swedesmen's fall. Whoe'er saw pile funereal flame So bright as then? Sure never shall expire thy name, O Colbiornsen! Thus ...

— Tord of Hafsborough - and Other Ballads • Anonymous

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