| Sounds | pay'l | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | aisle ... worthwhile: 64 rhymes with ayl... | |
| Meaning | A collection of objects laid on top of each other. | |
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| Synonyms | heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus | |
| Narrower | compost heap, compost pile | A heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost |
| dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill | A heap of dung or refuse | |
| pyre, funeral pyre | wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite | |
| scrapheap | pile of discarded metal | |
| shock | A pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry | |
| slagheap | pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | |
| stack | An orderly pile | |
| stockpile | A storage pile accumulated for future use | |
| woodpile | A pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel | |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage | Several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
| Spanish | acumulación, aglomerado, cúmulo, montaña, montículo, montón, pila | |
| Catalan | apilament, muntanya, munt, pila, pilot | |
| Verbs | pile | arrange in stacks |
| pile | place or lay as if in a pile | |
| pile | press tightly together or cram | |
| Meaning | (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 | |
| Narrower | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent | An overwhelming number or amount |
| haymow | A mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | |
| Broader | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
| Spanish | avalancha, barbaridad, bestialidad, burrada, cantidad, cúmulo, enormidad, fajo, lote, mogollón, montaña, montón, multitud, passel, pila | |
| Catalan | apilament, apilotament, castell, cúmul, estiba, feix, lot, manyoc, muntanya, munt, passel, pila, pilot, quantitat, tou | |
| Verbs | pile | press tightly together or cram |
| Meaning | A large sum of money (especially as pay or profit). | |
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| Synonyms | bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money | |
| Broader | money | wealth reckoned in terms of money |
| Usage of | slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
| Meaning | 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 | |
| Narrower | lanugo | The fine downy hair covering a human fetus |
| Broader | hair | A covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head) |
| Adjectives | pilous, pilary | covered with hairs especially fine soft ones |
| Meaning | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | voltaic pile, galvanic pile | |
| Broader | battery, electric battery | A device that produces electricity |
| Spanish | pila voltaica | |
| Catalan | pila voltaica | |
| Meaning | A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. | |
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| Synonyms | spile, piling, stilt | |
| Narrower | sheet pile, sheath pile, sheet piling | A pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
| Broader | column, pillar | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
| Spanish | pilote | |
| Meaning | The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction" | |
| Synonym | nap | |
| Broader | thread, yarn | A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing / sewing and weaving |
| Spanish | hilo | |
| Meaning | A nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy. | |
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| Synonyms | atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor | |
| Broader | nuclear reactor, reactor | (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements |
| Spanish | reactor atómico | |
| Catalan | reactor atòmic | |
| Meaning | Arrange in stacks. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Model | They pile their rifles on the cabinet | |
| Synonyms | stack, heap | |
| Narrower | cord | stack in cords |
| rick | pile in ricks | |
| Broader | arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order |
| See also | pile up | arrange into piles or stacks |
| Spanish | acumular, amontonar, apilar, hacinar | |
| Catalan | acumular, agarberar, amuntegar, apilar, apilonar | |
| Nouns | pile | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
| Meaning | Press tightly together or cram. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | throng, mob, pack, jam | |
| Caused by | pack | Fill to capacity |
| Broader | crowd, crowd together | To gather together in large numbers |
| Spanish | abarrotar, atestar, llenar | |
| Catalan | abarrotar, apilotar-se, apinyar-se, atapeir, omplir | |
| Nouns | pile | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
| pile | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent | |
| Meaning | place or lay as if in a pile. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" | |
| Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay | Put into a certain place or abstract location |
| Nouns | pile | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
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