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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

... the count. The rooms had been fitted up in strict accordance with Oriental ideas; the floors were covered with the richest carpets Turkey could produce; the walls hung with brocaded silk of the most magnificent designs and texture; while around each chamber luxurious divans were placed, with piles of soft and yielding cushions, that needed only to be arranged at the pleasure or convenience of such as sought repose. Haidee and three French maids, and one who was a Greek. The first three remained constantly in a small waiting-room, ready to obey the ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... "Turkey Track piles his saddle an' bridle onto the r'ar of the buckboard, an' settin' in behind on his plunder, commands the ground owl driver to head west till further orders. Likewise, he so far onbends as to say that them orders won't be deecem'nated, none whatever, ontil he's landed at the ...

— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

... "King is dead." "Yes," answered the other, and we were silent. Memory was busy. We could not talk. In his office, where yet he wears the harness of the law, surrounded by musty, well-thumbed books, and piles of papers with hard judicial faces, we sat and mused. Perhaps we thought of the past, when those to whom eternity is a reality were with us and joyous. At such times the mind turns quickly back to youth's joys, nor lingers along the vista ...

— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks

... do it, he may recall walking on poles that turned. He is not then satisfied with the pole idea. The perception of stones may next become clear in his mind, and if no inhibiting or hindering idea comes up, the stone idea carries him into action. He piles the stones into ...

— The Science of Human Nature - A Psychology for Beginners • William Henry Pyle

... in the room, and, growing bolder, they drew nearer, until they could get a good view of the interior. They saw a table and several chairs, and also a desk and a safe. On the table was the lamp, and beside this, several piles of ...

— The Rover Boys on the Plains - The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch • Arthur Winfield

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