piles
pahylz
- n pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter
- n a large number or amount
- n a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- n a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- n fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- n battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- n a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- n the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- n a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- v arrange in stacks
- v press tightly together or cram
- v place or lay as if in a pile
- Outside the compulsively groomed resort areas, garbage grows in small piles on the side of streets on the island's growing urban areas, festering in the tropical sun.
- It consists of warm tortillas and potato omelets, piles of percebes (gooseneck barnacles), llmpares (snail-like mollusks), and centollos (gigantic spider crabs).
- Women squat behind piles of vegetables they will carry to distant neighborhoods for a tiny profit.