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English to English noun
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a collection of objects laid on top of each other |  | source: wordnet30
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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | | Example: she made a bundle selling real estate
they sank megabucks into their new house
source: wordnet30
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fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | | source: wordnet30
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battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta | | source: wordnet30
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a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | | source: wordnet30
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the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave | | Example: for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction
source: wordnet30
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a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy | | source: wordnet30
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A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. | | source: webster1913
| 10 |
The head of an arrow or spear. | | source: webster1913
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A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. | | source: webster1913
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A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. | | source: webster1913 verb
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arrange in stacks | | Example: heap firewood around the fireplace
stack your books up on the shelves
source: wordnet30
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press tightly together or cram | | Example: The crowd packed the auditorium
source: wordnet30
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place or lay as if in a pile | | Example: The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested
source: wordnet30
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To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. | | source: webster1913
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To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood. | | source: webster1913
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