a collection of objects laid on top of each other

[ Syn: heap , mound , agglomerate , cumulation , cumulus ]

(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

[ Syn: batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , heap , lot , mass , mess , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , peck , 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

[ Syn: bundle , big bucks , megabucks , big money ]

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

[ Syn: down ]

battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

[ Syn: voltaic pile , galvanic pile ]

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

[ Syn: spile , piling , 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

[ Syn: nap ]

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

[ Syn: atomic pile , atomic reactor , chain reactor ]

arrange in stacks; heap firewood around the fireplace; stack your books up on the shelves

[ Syn: stack , heap ]

press tightly together or cram; The crowd packed the auditorium

[ Syn: throng , mob , pack , jam ]

place or lay as if in a pile; The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested'