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How to pronounce piles in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid
Type of symptom
Type Words
Synonyms dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads
Type of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

Examples of piles

piles
He piles everything on the counter, noticing a man in a security outfit staring.
From the thenewstribune.com
Giant tractors and dump trucks cleared roads and sorted debris into giant piles.
From the tennessean.com
Then they are going to try and predict how many piles they will be able to make.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Crews are now focusing on removing piles of snow from shoulders, officials said.
From the dailyherald.com
Another was the six-burner Imperial commercial range hidden under piles of junk.
From the post-gazette.com
If he piles up points on a helpless opponent, he can't quite grasp the scrutiny.
From the sfgate.com
To stock her warehouse, she sorts through piles of old clothes at rag factories.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Each morning he logs onto his blog to find piles of new comments from overnight.
From the dailyherald.com
Crappies also were hitting on tube jigs and minnows near brush piles and ledges.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • Hemorrhoid: pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter
  • Tons: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
  • (pile) a collection of objects laid on top of each other
  • (pile) stack: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
  • (pile) 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 ...
  • (pile) throng: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
  • (Pile (data structure)) 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.
  • (Pile (heraldry)) 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).
  • (Pile (textile)) 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. . ...