Definitions for heap
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulusnoun

   a collection of objects laid on top of each other

2. 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, wadnoun

   (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. bus, jalopy, heapverb

   a car that is old and unreliable

   "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"

4. heapverb

   bestow in large quantities

   "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"

5. stack, pile, heapverb

   arrange in stacks

   "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"

6. heapverb

   fill to overflow

   "heap the platter with potatoes"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. heapnoun

   A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

2. heapnoun

   A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.

3. heapnoun

   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. heapnoun

   A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

5. heapverb

   To pile in a heap.

   He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

6. heapverb

   To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

7. heapverb

   To supply in great quantity.

   They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

8. Etymology: heep, from heap, from haupaz (cf. Dutch hoop, Low German, German Haufen), from koupos ‘hill’ (cf. Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi ‘stack’, Avestan kaofa)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HEAPnoun

   Etymology: heap, Saxon; hoop, Dutch and Scottish.

   1. Many single things thrown together; a pile; an accumulation.

   The way to lay the city flat,
   And bury all which yet distinctly ranges,
   In heaps and piles of ruin. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   The dead were fallen down by heaps, one upon another. Wisd. xviii. 23.

   Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. John Dryden, Æn.

   One may form from it an idea of Venice in its first beginnings, when it had only a few heaps of earth for its dominions. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   2. A crowd; a throng; a rabble.

   A cruel tyranny, bathed in the blood of their emperors; a heap of vassals and slaves, no freemen, no inheritance, no stirp or ancient families. Francis Bacon, holy War.

   3. Cluster; number driven together.

   An universal cry resounds aloud;
   The sailors run in heaps, a helpless crowd. Dryden.

2. To Heapverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To throw on heaps; to pile; to throw together.

   Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well. Ezek. xxiv. 10.

   2. To accumulate; to lay up.

   Though the wicked heap up silver as the dust, and raiment as the clay; but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. Job xxvii. 16.

   How great the credit was, wherein that oracle was pre served, may be gathered from the vast riches which were there heaped up from the offerings of all the Grecian nations. William Temple.

   They who will make profession of painting, must heap up treasures out of their reading, and there will find many wonderful means of raising themselves above others. Dryden.

   3. To add to something else.

   For those of old,
   And the late dignities heap’d up to them,
   We rest your hermits. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. heap

   A heap is a data structure in computer programming which is in the form of a complete or nearly complete binary tree. It has two key properties - its shape and heap property. The shape property requires that the tree must be a complete binary tree, while the heap property means that each parent node is less than or equal to (min-heap) or greater than or equal to (max-heap) the value of its child nodes. It is mainly used in algorithms for sorting (heap sort), priority queues, and graph algorithms.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Heapnoun

   a crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons

2. Heapnoun

   a great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile

3. Heapnoun

   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. Heapverb

   to collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures

5. Heapverb

   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. Heapverb

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

7. Etymology: [OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. hep; akin to OS. hp, D. hoop, OHG. houf, hfo, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob, Icel. hpr troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. Hope, in Forlorn hope.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Heap

   hēp, n. a pile or mass heaved or thrown together: a great number of things, a great deal, a collection: (B.) a ruin.—v.t. to throw in a heap or pile: to amass: to pile above the top:—pr.p. heap′ing; pa.p. heaped.—adj. Heap′y, full of heaps.—A heap, a good many; Knock all of a heap, to confound utterly. [A.S. héap: Ice. hópr, Ger. haufe, Dut. hoop.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HEAP

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Heap is ranked #15402 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Heap surname appeared 1,903 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Heap.
   
   90.9% or 1,730 total occurrences were White.
   2.6% or 51 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.5% or 48 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 36 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Arrange
   • Fill
   • Give

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'heap' in Nouns Frequency: #2969

Anagrams for heap »

1. epha

2. HAPE

3. hep A

4. HEPA

How to pronounce heap?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of heap in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of heap in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of heap in a Sentence

1. Manu:

   Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.

2. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory:

   This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

3. Pooja Bohara:

   Society and some family members blame me. My uncle even suggested that I should be placed in a heap of straw and burnt to death, but my father was for justice, it is not our fault that we are raped. Victims should come out and tell their story to the courts and seek justice.

4. John Oliver Hobbes:

   Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

5. Apostolos Kimisis:

   I'm standing outside and it's about to rain. If that sets off a rockfall in the mountains, how will we repair the roads? we've got a heap of projects, a heap of obligations.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=heap
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Heap
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=heap
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heap
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=heap
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html