pile

v. place one on top of other, heap; accumulate, gather, collect

n. heap, mound; wealth, fortune; group of buildings; dike, levee

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Noun
1. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
(synonym) heap, mound, cumulus
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(hyponym) compost heap, compost pile
2. (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"; "it must have cost plenty"
(synonym) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(hypernym) large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
(hyponym) flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
(derivation) throng, mob, pack, jam
3. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
(synonym) bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money
(hypernym) money
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
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
(hypernym) hair
(hyponym) lanugo
5. battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
(synonym) voltaic pile, galvanic pile
(hypernym) battery, electric battery
6. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
(synonym) spile, piling, stilt
(hypernym) column, pillar
(hyponym) sheet pile, sheath pile, sheet piling
7. 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"
(synonym) nap
(hypernym) thread, yarn
8. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
(synonym) atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor
(hypernym) nuclear reactor, reactor

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Verb
1. arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
(synonym) stack, heap
(hypernym) arrange, set up
(hyponym) rick
(see-also) pile up, heap up, stack up
(derivation) heap, mound, cumulus
2. press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
(synonym) throng, mob, pack, jam
(hypernym) crowd, crowd together
(derivation) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
3. place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(derivation) heap, mound, cumulus

adv. exactly, indeed, precisely

nf. pile, stake, heap; pier, battery

v. pound, crush, grind

nf. pile, heap, stack; battery