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heap - definition and meaning
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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
[Middle English, from Old English hēap.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English heep, from Old English hēap, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (cf. Dutch hoop, Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos ‘hill’ (cf. Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi ‘stack’, Avestan kaofa)
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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
Related Words
synonyms (277)
Words with the same meaning
- abundance
- accord
- accumulate
- accumulation
- administer
- afford
- agglomeration
- aggregate
- aggregation
- allot
- allow
- amass
- amassment
- amount
- anthill
- army
- assemble
- auto
- autocar
- automobile
- award
- backlog
- bag
- bank
- bank up
- barrel
- batch
- bestow
- bestow on
- boat
- bottle
- box
- budget
- buggy
- bunch
- burden
- bus
- can
- car
- charge
- choke
- chunk
- clump
- cluster
- clutch
- cock
- cohue
- collect
- collection
- commissariat
- commissary
- communicate
- confer
- congeries
- conglomeration
- considerable
- cord
- cornucopia
- count
- crate
- crowd
- crush
- cumber
- cumulate
- cumulation
- deal
- deal out
- deluge
- deposit
- dish out
- dispense
- dog
- dole
- dole out
- donate
- dose
- drift
- dump
- dune
- embankment
- extend
- fill
- flock
- flood
- fork out
- freight
- galaxy
- garner
- garner up
- gather
- gather into barns
- gathering
- gift
- gift with
- give
- give cheerfully
- give freely
- give out
- glean
- gob
- gobs
- good deal
- grant
- great deal
- group
- hand out
- harvest
- haycock
- haymow
- hayrick
- haystack
- heap up
- heap upon
- heaps
- help to
- hide
- hill
- hoard
- hoard up
- hold
- horde
- host
- hunk
- impart
- inventory
- issue
- jalopy
- jam
- jillion
- keep
- lade
- larder
- large amount
- lashings
- lavish
- lavish upon
- lay up
- legion
- let have
- load
- loads
- lot
- lots
- lumber
- lump
- machine
- mass
- material
- materials
- materiel
- measure
- mess
- mete
- mete out
- million
- mint
- mob
- molehill
- motor
- motor vehicle
- motorcar
- motorized vehicle
- mound
- mountain
- mow
- much
- multitude
- munitions
- not hold back
- number
- offer
- oodles
- open the purse
- overfill
- pack
- pack away
- panoply
- parcel
- part
- peck
- pile
- pile up
- piles
- plenitude
- plenty
- plethora
- portion
- pot
- pots
- pour
- power
- present
- press
- proffer
- provide
- provisionment
- provisions
- put up
- pyramid
- quantities
- quantity
- quite a little
- rabble
- raft
- rafts
- rain
- ration
- rations
- reap
- render
- repertoire
- repertory
- rick
- rout
- ruck
- sack
- save
- save up
- scads
- scores
- sea
- secrete
- serve
- set aside
- shell out
- ship
- shock
- shower
- shower down upon
- sight
- slew
- slews
- slip
- small amount
- snow
- snowdrift
- spare no expense
- spare nothing
- spate
- squirrel
- squirrel away
- stack
- stack up
- stacks
- stash
- stock
- stock up
- stock-in-trade
- stockpile
- store
- store up
- stores
- stow
- sum
- superabundance
- supplies
- supply
- supply on hand
- tender
- thousand
- throng
- tidy sum
- tons
- treasure
- treasure up
- treasury
- trillion
- tub
- voiture
- vouchsafe
- wad
- wads
- wheels
- whole slew
- wreck
- yield
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