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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

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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

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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 :

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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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