Box and Pile

Box

Box noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.

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Pile and box are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pile" instead a noun "Box".

Nearby Word: boxed

Pile noun - A quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another.

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Box and pile are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Box" instead a noun "Pile".

Nearby Words: piled, piling

old	old box	old pile
full	full box	full pile
nice	nice box	nice pile
normal	normal box	normal pile
Other adjectives: complete, certain, green, single, empty, small, entire, massive, large, big, bottomless, enormous, huge, little, tiny, new, literal, said, wide, nearby, giant, bigger.

box humans

pile humans

Left 4 Dead justifies this: all guns have separate ammo pools and replenish that or get upgraded ammo from the same pile/box, but they are all clearly shown to contain a variety of different types of ammo.

Source: Universal Ammunition
It becomes something of a Sad Times Montage, however, when the pile of sleeping box trolls becomes progressively smaller and smaller.

Source: Western Animation / The Boxtrolls
Jabba Table Manners: When Darla pigs out on a huge pile of junk food — and one apple — in her balcony box.

Source: Western Animation / Cats Don't Dance

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