Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. {Pill} a medicine.]
(Med.)
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and
lower part of the rectum which are technically called
{hemorrhoids}. See {Hemorrhoids}.
Note: [The singular {pile} is sometimes used.]
{Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pile
n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: {heap},
{mound}, {cumulus}]
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" [syn: {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}]
3: informal: a large sum of money
4: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the
earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: {voltaic
pile}, {galvanic pile}]
5: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into
the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: {spile},
{piling}, {stilt}]
6: the yarn (as in a rug or velvet) that stands up from the
weave
7: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to
generate energy [syn: {atomic pile}, {atomic reactor}, {chain
reactor}]
v 1: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace";
"stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: {stack}, {heap}]
2: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {mob}, {pack}, {jam}]
3: place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the
students until the parents protested"
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