pile

nouns

a collection of objects laid on top of each other
agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile
(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"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
"she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"
big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks, pile
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
down, pile
is derived from
pilary
is derived from
pilous
battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
galvanic pile, pile, voltaic pile
a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
pile, piling, spile, stilt
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"
nap, pile
a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor, pile

verbs

arrange in stacks
"heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
heap, pile, stack
see also
pile up
press tightly together or cram
"The crowd packed the auditorium"
jam, mob, pack, pile, throng
place or lay as if in a pile
"The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"
pile
is a type of (narrower)
put into a certain place or abstract location
"Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
lay, place, pose, position, put, set