pile (original) (raw)
pile noun (AMOUNT)
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a pile of sth/piles of sth
informal
a lot of something:
I've got piles/a pile of things to do today.
They hope that these new drugs will make them a pile of cash.
We had to pay piles of money to get the work done.
pile noun (COLUMN)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
pile noun (SURFACE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
pile noun (BUILDING)
pile noun (MEDICAL)
They told us we'd get piles if we sat on the cold wall.
The doctor told her she had piles.
Idiom
pile verb (PEOPLE)
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of pile from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
pile | American Dictionary
pile noun (THINGS)
infml A pile or piles can also be a lot of something:
pile noun (SURFACE)
pile verb (MOVE)
Someone yelled "Fire!" and we all piled out into the street.
pile verb (THINGS)
Phrasal verb
(Definition of pile from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
pile | Business English
at the bottom/top of the pile
See also
pile it high, sell it cheap
(Definition of pile from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of pile
pile
Many seeds were recorded as having disappeared when they had been moved from their original piles (12.9%).
The upstream front then propagates upstream as the flow piles up (blocking).
The evidence, or perhaps the rhetorical use of evidence, seems to be piling up.
Thus, action sequence 3 is applied which consists of moveforward_down and moveforward_up actions to penetrate the rock pile by wiggling in between the rock particles.
The cameraman follows them inside, pausing briefly over a pile of shoes (10-15 pair) at the door.
No rock lines or rock piles were discovered in the course of the survey.
As a further interpretation, consider a 'linear machine' in which a pile of c chips are c split evenly, with 2d going in each direction.
She begins the novel in the assumed persona of a young widowed painter who moves into a crumbling pile in an isolated village.
First they sprinkle the beach with pots using seawater, and after two or three sprinklings, they pile the sand up.
Unlike steamboats, the piling up of bodies did not result from a few dramatic accidents.
A heap of skulls was piled outside this front gate.
Cassowaries consume the fruit whole, when ripe, and defecate seeds in piles away from parent trees, where seed predation rates are lower.
Two further samples were taken from the middle of the stored manure piles after 3 months, 6 months and a year.
Once the piles are made they take two ollas or tinajas and put one on top of the other.
She sweats to pile up virtues for the man.
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Collocations with pile
These are words often used in combination with pile.
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Bulk samples from the center of the compost pile were collected and mixed.
They may not be taken from the discard pile, and are useless if found in the hand.
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The book's cover features a photograph of a young boy sitting at a breakfast table with a huge pile of pancakes.
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