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Meaning of pile

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  pile
      n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn:
           {pile}, {heap}, {mound}, {agglomerate}, {cumulation},
           {cumulus}]
      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"; "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" [syn:
         {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal},
         {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint},
         {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
         {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
         {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
      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" [syn: {pile}, {bundle}, {big bucks},
         {megabucks}, {big 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)
         [syn: {down}, {pile}]
      5: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the
         earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: {voltaic
         pile}, {pile}, {galvanic pile}]
      6: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the
         ground to provide support for a structure [syn: {pile},
         {spile}, {piling}, {stilt}]
      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" [syn:
         {pile}, {nap}]
      8: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to
         generate energy [syn: {atomic pile}, {atomic reactor},
         {pile}, {chain reactor}]
      v 1: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace";
           "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: {stack}, {pile},
           {heap}]
      2: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
         auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {pile}, {jam}]
      3: place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the
         students until the parents protested"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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