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Noun: piles pIlz- Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter
- hemorrhoid [N. Amer], haemorrhoid [Brit, Cdn] - A large number or amount
- tons, dozens, heaps, lots, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs [N. Amer], scads [N. Amer], lashings [Brit], masses [Brit]
Noun: pile pIl- A collection of objects laid on top of each other
- heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus - (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- 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 - A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- 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 or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- spile, piling, stilt - The yarn (as in a rug or 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
Verb: pile pIl- Arrange in stacks
- 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"
See also: pilary, pile up Type of: accumulation, aggregation, arrange, assemblage, battery, collection, column, crowd, crowd together, electric battery, hair, hurting, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, lay, money, nuclear reactor, pain, pillar, place, pose, position, put, reactor, set, set up, thread, yarn Encyclopedia: Pile Piles Piles, Valencia |