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Definition of 'heap'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) heap
a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile:
a heap of stones.

2.  heap
Informal. a great quantity or number; multitude.

3.  heap
Slang. a dilapidated automobile.

4. (v.t.) heap
to gather, put, or cast in a heap; pile.

5.  heap
to accumulate; amass (often fol. by up or together):
to heap up riches.

6.  heap
to give, assign, or bestow in great quantity; load (often fol. by on or upon):
to heap blessings upon someone.

7.  heap
to load, supply, or fill abundantly:
to heap a plate with food.

8. (v.i.) heap
to become heaped or piled, as sand or snow; rise in a heap or heaps (often fol. by up).

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME heep, OE hēap, c. OS hōp, OHG houf)

Definition of 'heap'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus
a collection of objects laid on top of each other

2. (noun) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

3. (verb) bus, jalopy, heap
a car that is old and unreliable
"the fenders had fallen off that old bus"

4. (verb) heap
bestow in large quantities
"He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"

5. (verb) stack, pile, heap
arrange in stacks
"heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"

6. (verb) heap
fill to overflow
"heap the platter with potatoes"

Definition of 'heap'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) heap
a messy pile
a heap of dirty dishes; The laundry lay in a heap on the floor.

2. heap
heaps
a lot; = plenty
We have heaps of time.

3. heap
the top/bottom of the heap
the best/worst position or rank
Which albums will be at the top of the heap this year?

4. (verb) heap
to pile sth on top of sth else
Trucks were heaping more garbage on the pile.

Definition of 'heap'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) heap
a crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons

2. (noun) heap
a great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile

3. (noun) heap
a pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones

4. (verb) heap
to collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures

5. (verb) heap
to throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal

6. (verb) heap
to form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full

Translation of 'heap'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a large amount or a large number, in a pile a heap of sand/apples.
Afrikaans: hoop, stapel	Arabic: كومَه، عَدَد كبير	Bulgarian: куп
Brazilian: monte	Czech: hromada	German: der Haufen
Danish: bunke	Greek: σωρός	Spanish: montón
Estonian: kuhi	Farsi: توده	Finnish: kasa
French: tas	Hebrew: עֲרֵימָה	Hindi: ढेर
Croatian: hrpa, kup	Hungarian: halom	Indonesian: tumpukan
Icelandic: hrúga; hellingur	Italian: mucchio	Japanese: (～の) 山
Korean: (쌓아올린) 더미	Lithuanian: krūva	Latvian: kaudze; grēda
Malay: longgokan	Dutch: berg, meute, hoop, stapel	Norwegian: haug, bunke, dynge
Polish: stos, kupa	Persian: توده	Pashto: كوټه ، كوړه، كوټه كول، كو
Portuguese: monte	Romanian: grămadă	Russian: куча
Slovak: hromada, kopa	Slovenian: kup	Serbian: hrpa
Swedish: hög, hop	Thai: ปริมาณมาก	Turkish: yığın
Taiwanese: 一堆	Ukrainian: купа	Urdu: ڈھیر
Vietnamese: đống	Chinese: 一堆
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