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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pile |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, bank, bundle, cock, drift, heap, hill, hoard, load, mass, mound, mountain, pack, pyramid, sheaf |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregation, amassment, augmentation, build-up, chunk, collecting, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, gob, growth, heap, hoarding, hunk, increase, inflation, intensification, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, trove, up, upping |
| Antonyms: | dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, scattering |
| Main Entry: | buildup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accretion, advertising, enlargement, escalation, expansion, gain, growth, heap, hype, increase, load, mass, plug, promotion, publicity, puff, stack, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | decrease, destruction, reduction |
| Main Entry: | bunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of something |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, assemblage, assortment, band, batch, bevy, blob, bouquet, bundle, caboodle, chunk, clump, cluster, covey, crew, crowd, fascicle, flock, galaxy, gang, gathering, group, heap, host, hunk, knot, lot, mass, mess, mob, multitude, number, oodles*, pack, parcel, party, passel, pile, quantity, sheaf, shebang, shock, shooting match, spray, stack, swarm, team, thicket, troop, tuft |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bundle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accumulation, package of something |
| Synonyms: | array, assortment, bag, bale, batch, box, bunch, carton, clump, cluster, collection, crate, group, heap, lot, mass, pack, package, packet, pallet, parcel, pile, quantity, roll, set, stack, wad |
| Main Entry: | chimney |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | smokestack for building |
| Synonyms: | chase, chimney pot, chimney stack, fireplace, flue, funnel, furnace, hearth, pipe, smokeshaft, stack, vent, ventilator |
| Main Entry: | cock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim up toward |
| Synonyms: | erect, hump, perk up, pile, prick, raise, stack, stand erect, stand up, stick up |
| Notes: | the male crab or lobster is a cock; the female, a hen |
| Main Entry: | collection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accumulating, acquiring, acquisition, agglomeration, amassing, amassment, anthology, assemblage, assembling, assembly, assortment, batch, bringing together, caboodle, clump, cluster, collation, combination, company, compilation, congeries, congregation, convocation, crowd, cumulation, digest, gathering, heap, hoard, kit, levy, lot, mass, medley, mess, miscellany, mobilization, muster, number, obtaining, omnibus, pile, quantity, securing, selection, set, stack, stock, stockpile, store |
| Main Entry: | countless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innumerable |
| Synonyms: | bags of, endless, gobs, heap*, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, innumerous, jillion, legion, limitless, loads, lots of, many, measureless, mess*, mint, mucho, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, oodles*, passel of, peck, pile, raft, scads, slew, stack, tidy sum, umpteen, uncountable, uncounted, untold, wad, whole slew, zillion |
| Antonyms: | calculable, countable, counted, limited, measurable, numbered, numerable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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