Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of things placed or thrown, one on top of the other.
- noun Informal A great deal; a lot.
- noun Slang An old or run-down car.
- transitive verb To put or throw in a pile.
- transitive verb To fill completely or to overflowing.
- transitive verb To bestow in abundance or lavishly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A great number of persons or animals; a troop; a crowd; a multitude.
- noun A great number of things; a large accumulation, stock, or store of any kind; a large quantity; a great deal: as, a heap of money; the frost destroyed a heap of fruit.
- noun A collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; a pile or raised mass: as, a heap of earth or stones. In some places a heap of limestone was formerly 4¾ cubic yards.
- noun In mathematics, a collection of objects all related in the same way one to another.
- To cast, lay, or gather in a heap; pile; accumulate; amass: as, to
heap stones or ore: often with up or on: as, toheap up treasures; to heap on wood or coal. - To round or form into a heap, as in measuring; give or fill with overflowing measure.
- To bestow a heap or large quantity upon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with
up . - transitive verb To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; ; -- often with up; ; or with on.
- transitive verb To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
- noun Now Low or Humorous A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
- noun Now Low or Humorous A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
- noun A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
crowd ; athrong ; a multitude or great number of people. - noun A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
- noun A
pile ormass ; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. - noun computing A
data structure consisting oftrees in which eachnode is greater than all itschildren . - verb transitive To pile in a heap.
- verb transitive To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- verb transitive To supply in great quantity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- noun a car that is old and unreliable
- verb fill to overflow
- verb bestow in large quantities
- noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- verb arrange in stacks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of Sinners 'tis said, _They heap up wrath; _ and the sinners of the Last Generations do not only add unto the _heap_ of sin that has been pileing up ever since the Fall of man, but they Interest themselves in every sin of that enormous heap.
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The slush pile, she explained, showing dimples, was what they called the heap of unsolicited manuscripts that dropped through their letter-box day by day.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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The slush pile, she explained, showing dimples, was what they called the heap of unsolicited manuscripts that dropped through their letter-box day by day.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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Their name for hundred is 'yha,' which means 'heap' -- that is, a heap of cowries.
Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873
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This jaw-dropping heap is the Hyatt Aqualea, a 17-story, 268-unit luxury condo-hotel that opened in February, the last of the Clearwater Beach megaprojects to come on line over the past decade.
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Top of the heap is China who executed at least 1,010 people from a population of 1.321 billion - that's a rate almost five times that of the USA.
Archive 2008-02-01 Not a sheep 2008
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If, as most believe, the Referendum says 'no' to independence, the Nationalist fox will have been well and truly shot (sorry, subjected to 'exempt hunting'); if it says 'yes' then GB is in heap big trouble.
Archive 2007-08-12 2007
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If, as most believe, the Referendum says 'no' to independence, the Nationalist fox will have been well and truly shot (sorry, subjected to 'exempt hunting'); if it says 'yes' then GB is in heap big trouble.
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Next, a zesty seasoning mixture of ground chiles, ginger, garlic and green onions, plus other condiments (eg; dried fish or shrimp, for those that like that sort of thing) are added, and the whole heap is left to mature.
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At the top of the dung heap is the ECB's chief, Frenchman Jean-Claude Trichet who is calling for "strong vigilance" to stop inflation lodging in the system, and signalling an interest rate rise to 3 percent in August by calling for a full meeting of governors, instead of the usual summer teleconference.
Berlin will have to decide Richard 2006
yarb commented on the word heap
What one does with opprobrium.
October 26, 2007
reesetee commented on the word heap
"In some places a heap of limestone was formerly 4¾ cubic yards." -- Century Dictionary (thanks to ruzuzu!)
March 5, 2012