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pile [n]
 
1)a collection of objects laid on top of each other
    Synonyms :cumulus heap mound 
    See Also: accumulation  accumulate  heap  jam  compost_heap  dunghill  scrapheap  shock  slagheap  stack  funeral_pyre  woodpile  stockpile 
 
2)(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
    Synonyms :batch deal flock good_deal great_deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle mint muckle peck plenty pot quite_a_little raft sight slew spate stack tidy_sum wad whole_lot whole_slew 
    See Also: large_indefinite_amount  chock_up  jam  heap  heap  deluge 
 
3)a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
    Synonyms :big_bucks big_money bundle megabucks 
    See Also: money  argot 
 
4)fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
    Synonyms :down 
    See Also: hair  lanugo 
 
5)battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
    Synonyms :galvanic_pile voltaic_pile 
    See Also: battery 
 
6)a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
    Synonyms :piling spile stilt 
    See Also: column  sheath_pile 
 
7)the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"
    Synonyms :nap 
    See Also: thread 
 
8)a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
    Synonyms :atomic_pile atomic_reactor chain_reactor 
    See Also: nuclear_reactor 
 
pile [v]
 
1)arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
    Synonyms :heap stack 
    See Also: arrange  cumulus  heap_up  stack  stacker  rick  cord 
 
2)press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
    Synonyms :jam mob pack throng 
    See Also: crowd  batch  cumulus  mob  concourse 
 
3)place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: lay  cumulus 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.

["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282].

2. ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].

(1999-06-04)








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