heap

Plural: heaps

Noun

• a collection of objects laid on top of each other
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• a car that is old and unreliable
• A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• A great number or large quantity of things.
• A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• A lot, a large amount

Verb

Verb Forms: heaped, heaping, heaps

• To pile or stack up in a disordered or organized manner.
• bestow in large quantities
  • "He heaped him with work"
  • "She heaped scorn upon him"
• arrange in stacks
  • "heap firewood around the fireplace"
• fill to overflow
  • "heap the platter with potatoes"
• To pile in a heap.
• To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• To supply in great quantity.

Adv

• very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

Examples

• a heap of earth; a heap of stones
• He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
• My first car was an old heap.
• She decided to HEAP her tiles into a defensive wall, hoping to block her opponent.
• Thanks a heap!
• They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
• You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

Synonyms

agglomerate, batch, bus, cumulation, cumulus, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, jalopy, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mound, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, amass, heap up, pile up

Anagrams of heap