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piling

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1. piling - Noun

2. piling - Verb

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of Pile

The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. Fidel Castro

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. Marcus Aurelius

The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale. Helen Hayes

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. George Orwell

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. Henry James

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