Definition of Piles

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Definition of Piles
	Piles The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.] Related Definitions: About, And, Anus, Are, Called, Hemorrhoids, Is, Lower, Of, Or, Part, Pile, Rectum, See, Singular, Small, Sometimes, Technically, The, Troublesome, Used, Which

Piles Quotations

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
Paul von Hindenburg

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Edward Burnett Tylor

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell

Egos seem to be a lot more frequent. I've been to loads of parties that were just crazy - whatever you would call Hollywood parties - and it's not like piles of cocaine on the tables and chicks naked, running around.
Ethan Suplee

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
John Kasich

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
Francis Parkman

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen Glasgow

Piles Translations

piles in German is schichtet
piles in Latin is strues

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