heap
heap Lexical Profile
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• noun
An untidy collection or pile of things laid or thrown on top of one another.
"He left his wet clothes in a heap on the bathroom floor."
A very large amount or number of something (used informally, often in the plural).
"We still have heaps of time before the train departs."
In computer science, an area of dynamically allocated memory or a specialized tree-based data structure satisfying the heap property.
"The program crashed because it exhausted the available memory on the heap."
An old, dilapidated, and poorly maintained motor vehicle.
"That rusty old heap in the driveway barely made it up the hill."
• verb
To put, throw, or gather objects into a large, untidy pile or mound.
"The children heaped the fallen autumn leaves in the middle of the yard."
To bestow or direct a large amount of praise, criticism, or honor upon someone.
"The reviewers heaped praise on the young director's debut film."
• Rhymes for heap
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'hēap', meaning a bush, troop, or pile of things, derived from Proto-Germanic '*haupaz' (crowd, mound) and related to German 'Haufe' and Dutch 'hoop'.