Definition: a car that is old and unreliable
Usage: the fenders had fallen off that old bus
Similar words: car, auto, automobile, motorcar, machine
Definition: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
Usage: he needs a car to get to work
Similar words: dysphemism
Definition: an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one
Usage: his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter
Synonyms: heap, cumulation, cumulus, agglomerate, mound, pile
Definition: a collection of objects laid on top of each other
Similar words: aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection
Definition: several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Synonyms: batch, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, passel, tidy sum, deal, spate, sight, slew, stack, heap, hatful, good deal, great deal, wad, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, lot, mass, mess, mickle, flock
Definition: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Usage: a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money
Similar words: large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
Definition: an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
Synonyms: heap
Definition: fill to overflow
Usage: heap the platter with potatoes
Similar words: fill, fill up, make full
Definition: make full, also in a metaphorical sense
Usage: fill a container; fill the child with pride
Definition: arrange in stacks
Usage: heap firewood around the fireplace; stack your books up on the shelves
Similar words: set up, arrange
Definition: put into a proper or systematic order
Usage: arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order
Synonyms: heap
Definition: bestow in large quantities
Usage: He heaped him with work; She heaped scorn upon him
Similar words: give
Definition: transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
Usage: I gave her my money; can you give me lessons?; She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care