Pile - Definition

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"