PILE
Definition:
- [noun] a collection of objects laid on top of each other
Synonyms: heap, mound, cumulus
- [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
- [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
- [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
- [noun] battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
Synonyms: voltaic galvanic
- [noun] a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
Synonyms: spiling, stilt
- [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
- [noun] a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
Synonyms: atomic atomic reactor, chain reactor
- [verb] arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
Synonyms: stack, heap
- [verb] press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
Synonyms: throng, mob, pack, jam
- [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