(Often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.
To put together several things in one pile; to arrange in stacks.
A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.
A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
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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.
Другие значения термина "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.
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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