Definition of piles

"piles" in the noun sense

1. pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

"made lots of new friends"

"she amassed stacks of newspapers"

"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"

3. pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit

"she made a bundle selling real estate"

"they sank megabucks into their new house"

4. down, pile

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

5. voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile

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

6. pile, spile, piling, stilt

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

7. pile, nap

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"

8. atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

"piles" in the verb sense

1. stack, pile, heap

arrange in stacks

"heap firewood around the fireplace"

"stack your books up on the shelves"

2. throng, mob, pack, pile, jam

press tightly together or cram

"The crowd packed the auditorium"

3. pile

place or lay as if in a pile

"The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

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Quotations for piles

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise then? [ Ben Jonson ]

Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated. [ Belisarius ]

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]

piles in Scrabble®

The word piles is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters piles:

PILES
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SPIEL
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PLIES
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In piles

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piles in Words With Friends™

The word piles is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters piles:

PLIES
(51)
SPIEL
(51)
PILES
(51)
 

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In piles

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(48)
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Words containing the sequence piles

Words that start with piles (1 word)

Words with piles in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving piles

Shorter words in piles

pi pile

Longer words containing piles

compiles decompiles

compiles recompiles precompiles

repiles

sandpiles

stockpiles

thermopiles

woodpiles