piles
- noun
- /paɪlz/
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montones
- There were piles of leaves in the yard after the storm.
And they did this with piles and piles of money and threat.
- And they did this with piles and piles of money and threat.
- The neighborhood garbage pile has a fancy balloon now.
- But bottom line is we're cutting the pile just about in half.
- She was saying that she was horrified by my giant pile of laundry.
- There's no leaf piles, there's just patches of flames.
- And, you know, there were prairies and woods and hills and even rock piles all over the place.
- I have two piles, the colored piles and the white light pile.
- It just looked like a pile of black shit, like debris.
Examples
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And we just have a pile of things at the end that you can win.
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You sort them into piles and you start building.
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I separated everything into two piles as of right now.
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Just fill in this cave full of some piles of stock and then we'll talk about it.
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I have two piles, the colored piles and the white light pile.
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So our wood pile, we have one more cord coming.
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So I guess we've been surrounded by the papers, piles of papers with just numbers.
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She was saying that she was horrified by my giant pile of laundry.
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He carefully stacked the books into piles on the library table.
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She sorted her paperwork into piles labeled 'urgent,' 'to file,' and 'to read.'
Synonyms
426
1.9
A heap of things put together
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1.0
A pile of things placed one on top of another
46
5.7
A large number of things or people
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1.8
A large pile of things or a large amount
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5.9
A large number of things or people
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2.1
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
1
1.0
A large number or amount of something
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2.0
A large number of people or things
1
6.7
A very large amount of something, for example many things or people
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1.0
A large number, usually more than twelve
A large amount of things, like books or food
A large amount of things, for example work, friends, or food
A large number of people or things
A very large number of people or things
A large amount of things like clothes or money
A very large amount of something, often said in a friendly or joking way
A pile of things gathered together
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Etymology
Piles comes from an old root pil- that meant 'pillar' or a 'mass'. Imagine stones or books stacked up like a small column — that image explains why we call a large heap or stack a 'pile'.