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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

... carpenters had gone, and the painters had gone, but they had left great messes and piles of stuff that had been swept out of the house, and heaps of the sawed-off ends of boards, and some good boards, and piles of broken laths and plaster and the little pieces that they had sawed off the laths, and some broken saw-horses, and a lot of ...

— The Doers • William John Hopkins

... was at work inside, for the rays of a lantern shed their light over piles of old cordage and heaps of rusty chains flanking the ...

— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

... all assembled at Mr. Brooke's house, where, having made ourselves as formidable as we could with swords and cocked hats, we marched in procession to the royal residence, his majesty having sent one of his brothers, who led me by the hand into his presence. The palace was a long, low shed, built on piles, to which we ascended by a ladder. The audience-chamber was hung with red and yellow silk curtains, and round the back and one side of the platform occupied by the rajah were ranged his ministers, warriors, and men-at-arms, bearing spears, swords, shields, and other warlike weapons. ...

— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel

... small bedrooms, each with just enough in the way of furnishings to provide for the comfort of the occupants, without adding to housekeeping cares. From this story a staircase of ladder-like steepness, led up to an unfinished garret, empty, except for a few pieces of dilapidated furniture and sundry piles of magazines and paper-covered books, which had undoubtedly contributed to the entertainment of ...

— Peggy Raymond's Vacation - or Friendly Terrace Transplanted • Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

... the mistresses of kings. There were in history numerous kings who had had mistresses, and there were still more numerous mistresses who had had kings; so that he had been able to publish a book of memoirs during each year of his married life, and even so there were greater further piles of these ladies waiting to be dealt with. Mrs. Arbuthnot was helpless. Whether she liked it or not, she was obliged to live on the proceeds. He gave her a dreadful sofa once, after the success of his Du Barri memoir, with swollen cushions ...

— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim

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