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(noun) the yarn (as in a rug or velvet) that stands up from the weave |
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Related Words: thread, yarn |
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(noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
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Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt |
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Related Words: column, pillar, sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling |
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(noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
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Synonyms: heap, mound |
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Related Words: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, dunghill, funeral pyre, midden, muckheap, muckhill, pyre, scrapheap, shock, slagheap, stack, stockpile, woodpile |
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(noun) informal: a large sum of money |
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Related Words: money |
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(verb) arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" |
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Synonyms: heap, stack |
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Related Words: arrange, cord, rick, set up |
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(noun) voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |
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Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile |
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Related Words: battery, electric battery |
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(noun) pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter |
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Synonyms: hemorrhoid |
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Related Words: hurting, pain |
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(noun) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
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Synonyms: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor |
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Related Words: nuclear reactor, reactor |
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(verb) press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" |
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Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
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Related Words: crowd, crowd together, draw together |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty" |
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Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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Related Words: deluge, flood, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, torrent |
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