heap
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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Etymology: From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).
Inflected forms:
form: heaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heaped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
pos: noun
examples: A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences
He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
gloss: A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
pos: noun
examples: a heap of earth; a heap of stones
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.
gloss: A great number or large quantity of things.
pos: noun
examples: a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
gloss: A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
pos: noun
gloss: Memory that is dynamically allocated.
pos: noun
examples: You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
gloss: A dilapidated place or vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: My first car was an old heap.
Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
gloss: A lot, a large amount.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Thanks a heap!
[W]e went to the play, and Pen was struck all of a heap with Miss Fotheringay … And he’s fallen in love with her—and I’m blessed if he hasn’t proposed to her […]
gloss: To pile in a heap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
gloss: To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
 News of that vanished Arabian,
 A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
gloss: To supply in great quantity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
gloss: very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
offensive
possibly
examples: Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway.
We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
Synonyms: heap up
pile up
Derived words: aheap
all of a heap
ant-heap
antheap
ash-heap
ash-heap-cake
ash heap of history
at the top of the heap
compost heap
dung heap
dung-heap
dustheap
dust heap of history
garbage heap of history
Heap Bridge
heaper
heapful
heapmeal
heapsort
heapy
it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
junkheap
minheap
moleheap
muckheap
mudheap
sandheap
scrap heap
scrapheap
scrap-heap
semiheap
shellheap
shitheap
slag heap
spoil heap
subheap
thanks a heap
to-heap
trash heap of history
treap
heapability
heapable
heap coals of fire on someone's head
heaped
heaping
heap insult on injury
heap on
heap up
overheap
upheap
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