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pilenoun1 a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one anothera large pile of newspapers that needed to be disposed of cock, heap, hill, mound, mountain, stack bank, bar, drift, embankmentbed, layermow, pyramid, rickbarrow, cairn, pyreaccumulation, aggregate, array, assemblage, collection, conglomeration, gathering, grouping, hoard, huddle, jumble, knot, pileup a considerable amounta job that paid piles of money abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard epidemic, plague, rashbonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplusdeluge, flood, overflowarmy, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, thronggazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillion all kinds (of), quite a bit ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whitsmatter, smatteringdash, drop, morsel, shotpiece, portion, sectionabsence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, wantdeficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness a very large amount of moneyshe made a pile in the stock market just before it headed south big bucks, bomb(British), boodle, bundle, earth, fortune, king's ransom, megabucks, mint, packet(chiefly British), wad heap, potbonanza, mine, treasure troveassets, capital, means, property, riches, wealth, wherewithalbread(slang), cash, chips, currency, dough, gold, jack(slang), legal tender, lucre, pelf, tender, wampum mite, peanuts, pittance, song petty cash, pin money, pocket money, spending money pilenoun2a soft airy substance or coveringthe lush pile of the carpeting down, floss, fluff, fur, fuzz, lint, nap batting the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thicka dog with such a dense pile that he never minded the cold coat, fleece, fur, hair, jacket, pelage, wool undercoat, underfurhide, leather, pelt, skin pileverbto lay or throw on top of one anotherpiled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away heap, mound, stack banklayer, pyramidaccumulate, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, group, massbunch, clump, lump unpile to gather into a closely packed groupthe kids piled into the car bunch, cluster, crowd, huddle, press assemble, collect, concenter, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, convene, converge, flock, forgather(or foregather), herd, swarm, throngencircle, mob, surroundembrace, hug break up, disband, disperse, split (up) in the 12th century |