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Pile
noun 2.(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. 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. "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" 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. 5.Battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile. 6.A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt. 7.The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave. Synonym: nap. verb (past & past part. piled; pres. part. piling) 1.Arrange in stacks. Synonyms: heap, stack. "Stack your books up on the shelves" 3.Place or lay as if in a pile.
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