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Meanings of pile in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mound"
Examples for "mound"
1
The body was laid on a small mound in the central enclosure.
2
The venerable mound, the digging of the new grave, woke gloomly thoughts.
3
The gold in the mound was exactly as he had left it.
4
For the first time she noticed that the mound was a grave.
5
Felix quested after words to say over the mound, but none came.
1
A band of cumulus lingered over the Great Hall of the People.
2
The Oracle is just a sliver above towering cumulus to the east.
3
Fair-weather cumulus clouds floated over oceans like popcorn scattered on blue carpet.
4
The sky was milky blue with cumulus clouds like white cotton candy.
5
The flashes were quite clear now, an expanding cumulus of flame.
1
Naturally, it was not; it was a cumulation, an apex.
2
Doctor McKelway paid the top compliment, the cumulation, when he said of Mr. Carnegie:
3
Indeed, as another example, our wealth is a cumulation of free lunches in the past.
4
Good memoirs must ever be the cumulation of gossip.
5
But differentia of higher taxa arises by cumulation during species selection, and may therefore be adaptive.
1
Had an interesting talk with Taylor on agglomerate and basaltic dykes of Castle Rock.
2
It is an agglomerate made of pebbles and cement, the pebbles being elongated as if by pressure.
3
The finer sense detects the differences of them, and begins, first to agglomerate, then to distinguish them.
4
The men of the left thought of "the people" as merely the agglomerate of the citizens composing it.
5
But it's only a rumor, undoubtedly one of those urban legends that appear whenever two or three houses agglomerate anywhere.
Usage of pile in English
1
Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile.
2
There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention.
3
The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him?
4
Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing.
5
One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend.
6
For a long time, nothing much happens: a conical pile slowly accumulates.
7
Tom North ordered a pile placed in the carriage; the hammer descended.
8
He patted a pile of tip money left by oil company executives.
9
The sand was handled from the stock pile in the same manner.
10
And it was no more the sole impressive pile in the borough.
11
A deal could also put News Corp's pile of cash to use.
12
One example is a pile of sand growing slowly, grain by grain.
13
Under a pile of flowers the coffin was carried to the grave.
14
Just a moment later a figure dashed out from behind the pile.
15
There was a pile of them in the corner of the room.
16
It was in Bloomsbury, and not in a pile of new buildings.
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Translations for pile
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Pile through the time
Pile across language varieties
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Common
United States of America
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