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pile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | piling, spile, stilt |
| Type of | pillar, column |
| Has types | sheath pile, sheet piling, sheet pile |
pile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Type of | large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity |
| Has types | deluge, flood, torrent, inundation, haymow |
pile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound |
| Type of | assemblage, collection, accumulation, aggregation |
| Has types | stack, compost heap, compost pile, slagheap, dunghill, shock, scrapheap, funeral pyre, pyre, muckheap, muckhill, midden, woodpile, stockpile |
pile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor |
| Type of | nuclear reactor, reactor |
pile::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | galvanic pile, voltaic pile |
| Type of | electric battery, battery |
Examples of pile
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As a result, many corporations have been able to pile up record amounts of cash.
From the time.com
If you're making a pile of savings last, you need to plan for all contingencies.
From the online.wsj.com
One of the soldiers grips me by the arm and hauls me behind a pile of suitcases.
From the sfgate.com
Next to it was a pile of brick pieces and soil, some of it distinctly dark gray.
From the stltoday.com
Yet while Mounties is atop the pile of Fairfield clubs, others are close behind.
From the smh.com.au
I doubt very much when he said that that he thought Bennie was a pile of sticks.
From the usatoday.com
Aiden ended up face down in a pile of clothing and suffocated, authorities said.
From the ocregister.com
It'll sit unobtrusively on your desk, under a pile of papers, until you need it.
From the techcrunch.com
The amount of people who pile out of the Chiltern Train at or after 8pm is huge.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
- A collection of objects laid on top of each other
- Stack: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
- Batch: (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"
- Throng: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
- A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
- Place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
- A pile is an abstract data structure for storing data in a loosely ordered way. There are two different usages of the term; one refers to an ordered deque, the other to an improved heap.
- In heraldry, a pile is a charge usually counted as one of the ordinaries (figures bounded by straight lines and occupying a definite portion of the shield).
- In textiles, pile is the raised surface or nap of a fabric, which is made of upright loops or strands of yarn."Pile." The Oxford English Dictionay. 2nd ed. 1989. Examples of pile textiles are carpets, corduroy, velvet, plush, and Turkish towels. . The word is derived from Latin pilus for "hair"
