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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