Definition of Pile
Noun: pile pI(-u)l
- A collection of objects laid on top of each other
- heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus
- (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
"a pile of letters";
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch
- A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
"she made a pile selling real estate";
- bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money, bomb [Brit]
- Fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- down
- Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- voltaic pile, galvanic pile
- A column of wood, steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- spile, piling, stilt
- The yarn (as in a rug, velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
"for uniform colour and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction";
- nap
- A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor
- Arrange in stacks
"pile your books up on the shelves";
- stack, heap
- Press tightly together or cram
- throng, mob, pack, jam
- Place or lay as if in a pile
"The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
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