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  • 101pile up — phr verb Pile up is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑snow …

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  • 102pile up — Synonyms and related words: accumulate, amass, backlog, bank, bank up, beach, cast away, collect, cumulate, drift, garner, garner up, gather into barns, ground, heap, heap up, hide, hill, hoard, hoard up, hold, keep, lay up, mound, pile, put up,… …

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  • 103pile — ● n. f. ►TYPE Structure de données classique où les premières données qu on y met sont les dernières à en ressortir. Tout à fait analogue à une pile d assiettes normalement constituée (et utilisée par quelqu un n ayant pas envie de tout… …

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  • 104Pile — 1. large number, quantity, or amount of anything: A pile of things to do ; 2. large accumulation of money …

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  • 105pile — Australian Slang 1. large number, quantity, or amount of anything: A pile of things to do ; 2. large accumulation of money …

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  • 106pile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. structure, building, edifice; nap; heap, mass, pyre; quantity. See assemblage. v. t. accumulate, load, amass, furnish. See greatness, covering, texture. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A heap] Syn. collection …

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  • 107pile up — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To bring together so as to increase in mass or number: accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect1, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, roll up. See COLLECT. 2. Informal. To undergo wrecking: crash,… …

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  • 108pile\ up — v. phr. 1. To grow into a big heap. He didn t go into his office for three days and his work kept piling up. 2. To run aground. Boats often pile up on the rocks in the shallow water. 3. To crash. One car made a sudden stop and the two cars behind …

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  • 109pile — I. v. a. 1. Accumulate, amass. 2. Collect or gather into a heap, heap up. II. n. 1. Heap, mass, collection, accumulation. 2. Building, edifice, structure, fabric, erection. 3. Nap, woolly surface. 4 …

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  • 110pile-up — noun (C) informal a road traffic accident in which several vehicles crash into each other: There had been several motorway pile ups in the fog …

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