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PILE

Definition:

1. [noun] a collection of objects laid on top of each other
   Synonyms: heap, mound, cumulus
   
   
2. [noun] (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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"
   Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
   
   
3. [noun] a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
   Synonyms: bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money
   
   
4. [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
   
   
5. [noun] battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
   Synonyms: voltaic galvanic
   
   
6. [noun] a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
   Synonyms: spiling, stilt
   
   
7. [noun] the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"
   Synonyms: nap
   
   
8. [noun] a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
   Synonyms: atomic atomic reactor, chain reactor
   
   
9. [verb] arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
   Synonyms: stack, heap
   
   
10. [verb] press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
    Synonyms: throng, mob, pack, jam
    
    
11. [verb] place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
    
    

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Related Words:

• rick
• cord
• compost heap, compost pile
• dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill
• scrapheap
• shock
• slagheap
• stack
• pyre, funeral pyre
• woodpile
• stockpile
• flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
• lanugo
• sheet pile, sheath pile, sheet piling

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