pile

Sense 1 noun

a collection of objects laid on top of each other

Sense 2 verb

arrange in stacks

heap firewood around the fireplace

Sense 3 noun

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

a batch of letters

Sense 4 verb

press tightly together or cram

The crowd packed the auditorium

Sense 5 noun

a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

she made a bundle selling real estate

Sense 6 verb

place or lay as if in a pile

The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested

Sense 7 noun

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

Sense 8 noun

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

Sense 9 noun

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

Sense 10 noun

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

Sense 11 noun

a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy