Word Finder - pile

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A mass of things heaped together; a heap.

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A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.

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When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile

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A mass formed in layers.

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a pile of shot

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A funeral pile; a pyre.

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A large amount of money.

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He made a pile from that invention of his.

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A large building, or mass of buildings.

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A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.

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A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

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An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

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The reverse (or tails) of a coin.

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A list or league

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(often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

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They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.

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To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

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We piled the camel with our loads.

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To add something to a great number.

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(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

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To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

There really was a pile of bones in her tub.

On the top of a pile of clothes lay a flower and note.

He dug deeper into the pile of cement blocks and ashes before him.

Her pile of blankets was folded next to him.

Why don't you get rid of that pile of junk?

Lifting it, he stepped up on the pile of hay and tossed the bale on top, straightening it before stepping down.

The world dumped her on top of a pile of sand near the boardwalk with the angry black sea roaring behind her.

Deidre wiped away more tears and went to her messy desk, where a red-covered notebook sat on a pile of paper.

Kevin crossed his office to the small safe and drew out a small pile of cash.

I can make a pile of money working his accounts.

He bought some battery powered lights to hang on the wagon and Gerald helped him pile hay on the wagon.

Then the pile was fired.

Martha returned with a pile of diapers in hand.

Gabriel stripped out of his pants and pulled on the new ones before striding back to the pile of the rest of his things.

How can I drag out a pile of maybes and cause her to spend the rest of her days wondering if hubby will jump out from behind some bush?

Before Dean finished hanging up his coat, pouring a cup of over-brewed coffee and settling in his chair, Rita Angeltoni dropped a pile of telephone messages on his desk.

The famous Falls of Lodore, at the upper end of the lake, consist of a series of cascades in the small Watendlath Beck, which rushes over an enormous pile of protruding crags from a height of nearly 200 ft.

She hadn't planned on jumping off her building, but the events of this night made the idea more appealing than having her head severed from her body or ending up a pile of bones in a bathtub.

She wore it because she was too upset to wash out the pile of jeans when she got home last night.

Another sheet of blottingpaper is then laid over it; and, a number of similar specimens being formed into a pile, the whole is submitted to pressure, the paper being changed every hour or two at first.

A mile and a half from the town, on the Lochy, stands the grand old ruin of Inverlochy Castle, a massive quadrangular pile with a round tower at each corner, a favourite subject with landscape painters.

The surface of the llanos is almost a dead level, the general elevation 1 The name means " little Venice," and is a modification of the name of Venecia (Venice), originally bestowed by Alonzo de Ojeda in 1499 on an Indian village, composed of pile dwellings on the shores of the Gulf of Maracaibo, which was called by him the Gulf of Venecia.

It was the concepts derived from the experimental methods of Harvey, Lavoisier, Liebig, Claude Bernard, Helmholtz, Darwin, Pasteur, Lister and others which, directly or indirectly, trained the eyes of clinicians to observe more closely and accurately; and not of clinicians only, but also of pathologists, such as Matthew Baillie, Cruveilhier, Rokitansky, Bright, Virchowto name but a few of those who, with (as must be admitted) new facilities for necropsies, began to pile upon us discoveries in morbid anatomy and histology.

The discovery by General Pitt Rivers in 1867 of the remains of pile dwellings both on the north and on the south of the Thames gives ground for an argument of some force in favour of the date of the foundation of London having been before the Roman occupation of Britain.

The pile is from time to time taken down and rebuilt, the tobacco from the top going to the bottom and that exposed at the edges being turned in to the centre.

It is an irregular pile of buildings, in fine and simple early Renaissance style; a small part of the original façade of 1028 in black and white marble is preserved.

The Bethmann vault attracts attention by three bas-reliefs from the chisel of Thorwaldsen; and the Reichenbach mausoleum is a vast pile designed by Hessemer at the command of William II.

By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.

The pile of mail she left on her desk was still there, the living room neat and quiet.

He went to the sink and began attacking the pile of dirty dishes as he pondered how they would tell the young girl her world was about to flip upside down.

Brandon Westlake, lustfully examining a pile of rusty tins, was pulled away by Paulette Dawkins for consultation.

He stripped off his shirt and flung it then tossed all his weapons in a pile at his feet before seating himself once more.

Terrified she'd find him in the tub, nothing more than a pile of bones, she pushed herself away from the wall and focused hard on calling a portal.

Gabriel stripped off his shirt and weapons then his heavy boots, dropping everything into a pile while two of his assassins watched.

Megan helped and stacked socks and underwear in her pile and then brought her a light wool jacket, leather gloves, hat, and scarf.

Jetr was stacking a new problem on a pile of other problems he couldn't deal with.

Fred offered to go up to Duckett's Market for boxes and give up closet space to temporarily store the large pile.

After breakfast they went outside and stood staring at the pile pumpkins.

She dished up some vegetables and glanced at Katie, who was attempting to pile more food on Alex's plate.

She kicked a pile of leaves from the branches where the floodwaters had deposited it a few weeks ago.

Alex paused at the hay pile and sat down, cross-legged, while he examined a chart.

He heard Hannah crying and smelled the unmistakable scent of human blood before he took a step onto the block.  He strode down the block and paused in front of Hannah's cell.  She was curled up on the bed, sobbing.  When he looked at the cell across from her, he saw why.  Jared stood in the cell, covered in blood.  The cell looked as if a human had exploded, and Rhyn saw a pile of bones Jared had gnawed clean then stacked neatly.

He wasn't in Scranton very often and the papers would pile up.

After flipping through a Ladies' Home Journal and read­ing the jokes in a Reader's Digest, he dug deeper into the pile.

Brutus followed her to the pile of hide and bones.

He watched her lift a bale of hay and step up on the pile.

She surrendered the bale to him and watched him toss it on top of the pile.

Finally Carmen grabbed the shovel and jabbed it into the pile of dirt.

He stopped at a pile where they had picked them out of the trail.

Beside the tank was a pile of split wood about three feet high and six feet long.