eng: pile - UWN/MENTA

eng: pile

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Meaning
means	(noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other mound, cumulation, agglomerate, cumulus, heap, pile
means	(noun) (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" passel, peck, mess, deal, flock, batch, raft, hatful, good deal, mountain, pot, wad, spate, pile, tidy sum, sight, great deal, mass, muckle, quite a little, mickle, plenty, mint, lot, stack, slew, heap
means	(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" megabucks, big bucks, big money, bundle, pile
means	(noun) 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, pile
means	(noun) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta pile, galvanic pile, voltaic pile
means	(noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure spile, stilt, piling, pile
means	(noun) 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" pile, nap
means	(noun) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy chain reactor, atomic reactor, pile, atomic pile
means	(verb) arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" heap, pile, stack
means	(verb) press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" throng, jam, pile, pack, mob
means	(verb) place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested" pile
means	e/Pile (data structure)
means	e/Pile (heraldry)
means	e/Pile (textile)

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