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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

... evening I was taking a stroll down that way, when I met an empty van coming up the lane, and saw a pile of carpets and things lying about on the grass-plot beside the porch. It was clear that the cottage had at last been let. I walked past it, and wondered what sort of folk they were who had come to live so near us. And as I looked I suddenly became ...

— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... demanded Villefort, turning over a pile of papers, containing information relative to the prisoner, that a police agent had given to him on his entry, and that, already, in an hour's time, had swelled to voluminous proportions, thanks to the corrupt espionage of which "the accused" ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... East. When a married man died, and his beloved wife aspired to the character of a saint, she burned herself publicly on the body of her husband. This was a solemn feast and was called the Funeral Pile of Widowhood, and that tribe in which most women had been ...

— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... impatient to see how it would end. Hermann stood at the table, and prepared to play alone against the pale, but still smiling Chekalinsky. Each opened a pack of cards. Chekalinsky shuffled. Hermann took a card and covered it with a pile of bank-notes. It was like a duel. Deep silence ...

— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne

... fagot followed, but as yet so carefully had they been thrown that we could not get a shot. It appeared to me that they were dropped from above. The pile was increasing, and soon rising higher than the loopholes, prevented us from seeing any one. Presently we heard the sound of crackling, and the flames rapidly caught ...

— Afar in the Forest • W.H.G. Kingston

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