 |
pile up
Found in thesaurus: increase, garner, pull together, gather, collect, stash away, lay in, put in, hive away, salt away, stack away, store
| Babylon English | Download this dictionary |
pile up
collect, accumulate; be heaped up
piled up
accumulated, gathered, collected
| English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia | Download this dictionary |
Multiple-vehicle collision
A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a multi-car collision, multi-vehicle collision, pile-up, or chain-reaction crash) is a road traffic accident involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic accidents. The most disastrous pile-ups have involved more than a hundred vehicles.
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |
© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
| WordNet 2.0 | Download this dictionary |
pile up
Verb
1. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
(synonym) accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, gather, amass
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) backlog
2. arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
(synonym) heap up, stack up
(hypernym) gather, garner, collect, pull together
3. get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
(synonym) roll up, collect, accumulate, amass, compile, hoard
(hypernym) store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
(hyponym) run up
| Babylon English-Czech | Download this dictionary |
pile-up
n.
hromadná srážka
| Babylon English-Polish | Download this dictionary |
pile up
gromadzić się; rosnąć
pile-up
Rzecz.
karambol
