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List of meaning for pile

a heap or mound of things

pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus(noun)

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad(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"; "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"

pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money(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"

down, pile(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)

voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile(noun)

battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

pile, spile, piling, stilt(noun)

a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

pile, nap(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"

atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor(verb)

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

stack, pile, heap(verb)

arrange in stacks

"heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"

throng, mob, pack, pile, jam(verb)

press tightly together or cram

"The crowd packed the auditorium"

pile(verb)

place or lay as if in a pile

"The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another

a large pile of newspapers that needed to be disposed of

a considerable amount

a job that paid piles of money

a very large amount of money

she made a pile in the stock market just before it headed south

a soft airy substance or covering

the lush pile of the carpeting

the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick

a dog with such a dense pile that he never minded the cold

to lay or throw on top of one another

piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away

to gather into a closely packed group

the kids piled into the car

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