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Synonyms for pile

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for pile

a large sum of money

a usually permanent construction, such as a house or store

to put into a disordered pile

to make or become full; put as much into as can be held

to fill to overflowing

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to leave one's bed

pile up: to bring together so as to increase in mass or number

pile up: to undergo wrecking

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Synonyms for pile

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

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battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series

a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

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a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

arrange in stacks

press tightly together or cram

place or lay as if in a pile

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* Padicipacion en la discusion sobre la reparacion de las otras pilas por la Empresa Pressure Concrete.
En estudios previos relacionados con el fenomeno de socavacion local en pilas se ha encontrado que la influencia del numero de Reynolds R sobre [Y.sub.s]/D es despreciable [7].
An underground lake, the largest body of water in the Dos Pilas area, lies inside.
Glyph-bearing monuments document the founding of another major Classic city, Dos Pilas, early in the 7th century by "cadet royals" who left Tikal after some kind of dynastic struggle and then organized a successful war against their former cohorts in A.D.
At Dos Pilas, where previous excavations have ben conducted, Demarest and his co-workers uncovered the remains of defensive walls apparently constructed in haste toward the end of the 8th century A.D.
Fray Pedro de Pila es descrito por los cronistas como un hombre que tuvo grandes virtudes: amante de la pobreza, recogido, prudente, celoso, sabio y de buena conducta; que predicaba con su ejemplo, por lo que era respetado por sus hermanos franciscanos y era visto por los indios como un verdadero padre y un hombre santo, que ejercio su ministerio de manera impecable en distinto pueblos y su doctrina siempre fue acompanada de sus obras materiales, como se hara notar enseguida (1).