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Heap

//hiːp// adv, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adverb

1
very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans not-comparable, offensive, possibly
"Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway."

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
"A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences"
2
Acronym of high explosive armor-piercing. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
3
a car that is old and unreliable wordnet
4
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; a heap of stones"
5
a collection of objects laid on top of each other wordnet

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6
A great number or large quantity of things.
"a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations"
7
(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent wordnet
8
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
9
Memory that is dynamically allocated.
"You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow."
10
A dilapidated place or vehicle. colloquial
"My first car was an old heap."
11
A lot, a large amount colloquial
"Thanks a heap!"

Verb

1
To pile in a heap. transitive
"He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding."
2
fill to overflow wordnet
3
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. transitive
"Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring News of that vanished Arabian, A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold."
4
arrange in stacks wordnet
5
To supply in great quantity. transitive
"They heaped praise upon their newest hero."

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bestow in large quantities wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).

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Etymology 3

Etymology 4

English surname, from the noun heap.

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