Word Meanings - PILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A covering of hair or fur. (more info) 1. A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PILE)

• Accumulation
• Heap
• collection
• store
• mass
• aggregation
• hoard
• pile

Related words: (words related to PILE)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• HOARDING
  A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• STOREY
  See STORY
• AGGREGATION
  The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter. A nation is not an idea only of local extent
• STOREHOUSE
  1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli.
• STORESHIP
  A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
• ACCUMULATION
  The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees , the taking of several together,
• HOARD
  See SMART
• HOARDER
  One who hoards.
• STORE
  Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family. His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry. Chaucer. In store,
• STOREKEEPER
  1. A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper. 2. One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.
• STOREROOM
  Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
• COLLECTION
  1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
• COLLECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• CASTOREUM
  A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong, penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an antispasmodic, and by perfumers.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• DISAGGREGATION
  The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.
• INSTORE
  To store up; to inclose; to contain. Wyclif.
• RESTORER
  One who, or that which, restores.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• RE-STORE
  To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.
• ENSTORE
  To restore. Wyclif.
• BOOKSTORE
  A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.