heap
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
heap (plural heaps)
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- a heap of vassals and slaves
- He had heaps of friends.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- a heap of earth or stones
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- 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.
- My first car was an old heap.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- Thanks a heap!
- See also Thesaurus:lot
- German: Menschenmenge, Masse
- Italian: folla, massa, moltitudine
- Portuguese: multidão
- French: tas, pile, monceau
- German: Haufen, Haufe
- Italian: pila, cumulo, catasta, mucchio
- Portuguese: pilha, monte
- Russian: ку́ча
- Spanish: pila, montón, cúmulo
- French: tas
- Italian: moltitudine, massa, marea
- Portuguese: monte
heap (heaps, present participle heaping; past and past participle heaped)
- (transitive) To pile in a heap.
- He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- News of that vanished Arabian,
- A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
- They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
- (pile in a heap) amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- Italian: ammucchiare, ammassare, accatastare
- Portuguese: empilhar, amontoar
- Spanish: amontonar
- Italian: colmare, ricolmare, coprire, sommergere, riempire
- Spanish: amontonar
heap (not comparable)
- (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
- 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.
- 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)
- 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.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
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