Structure at the surface of some underground ant nests, especially at high latitudes; provides heat control and flood protection.
A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
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Examples for "pile "
Examples for "pile "
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.
1 North Korean media continued to heap praise on Kim's leadership, Lim said.
2 It is, of course, wrong to heap all the blame on Thatcher.
3 The rider lay in a heap at the foot of the tree.
4 He tangled his feet in the blanket and fell in a heap .
5 Fill this into the tomatoes and heap it up in the centers.
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.
The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit.
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.
6 Tests have shown that the mound does contain high levels of mercury.
7 Now the shot flattened itself against sarsen stones imbedded in the mound .
8 The typical mound is one which covers the perpendicular burrow in Fig.
9 All right people, time for us to get to the pitcher's mound .
10 A mound is shaped by the activity of the society within it.
11 The mouth of the well is on the top of a mound .
12 Kit went to the end of the barrow-like mound of the turnip-pit.
13 He sat on the piazza of his house on the principal mound .
14 Gradually it resolved itself into a low mound in the dim light.
15 In the centre of a flat serving-dish arrange a mound of endive.
16 We are familiar with the idea of a terraced mound supporting buildings.
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