Converse of object

• totter: All this is a great tottering pile balanced on a ball, a ball that is about to start rolling downhill.

Adjective modifier

• bored: A piling company is to install bored piles in clay.

• neat: There, resting at the bottom of the case, was a neat pile of CDs.

• huge: He has just a week to deliver a huge pile of food to Vincent the bear's cave otherwise Vincent will eat RJ alive.

Modifies a noun

• carpet: She designed the interior rooms with Roman columns imported from Italy, deep pile carpets and ceilings swathed in 300 meters of fabric.

• rug: Do not use this method for anything other than wool pile rugs.

Noun used with modifier

• slush: For example, John Jarrold bought only two unsolicited novels from the slush pile in the last 7 years.

• shag: It's the 1970s - Twiglets, flares and shag pile carpet.

• boulder: The rift drops over jammed boulders to a mud floored boulder pile sloping downstream to a roaring streamway all of 2 meters long.

• outgrade: Reports do suggest that there are fewer outgrade piles around this season.

• rubble: If you put small log and rubble piles near a pond that will provide hibernation habitat for amphibians.

• manure: Otherwise, we will be thrown out to a worse place than the manure pile.

Preposition: of

• rubble: There were piles of rubble on this other track, some of which may have been wartime.

• rubbish: DEVELOPMENT: Leader: What a pile of rubbish!

• poo: Gary Saunders, Southampton I don't think the CityRover is a " pile of poo " .

• crap: I wouldn't even be surprised to discover whoever designed this pile of crap is a scaffolder by trade.

• junk: Gathering small piles of junk together gives one large pile of junk.