Meaning

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

    Menschenmenge, Masse

  2. 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

    Haufen, Haufe

    ку́чаkúča, гру́даgrúda, во́рохvórox

    ку́паkúpa, ку́чаkúča

  3. A great number or large quantity of things.

    ку́чаkúča

    (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent

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

    Heap

    ку́чаkúča

  5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.

    You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

    ку́чаkúča

  6. (colloquial)A dilapidated place or vehicle.

    My first car was an old heap.

  7. (colloquial)A lot, a large amount.

    Thanks a heap!

Examples

43 sentences
  1. She heaped her plate with salad.

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  2. I have heaps of work to do.

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  3. The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.

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  4. Get rid of that heap of old newspapers.

    ruВыброси эту кучу старых газет.

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  5. I have heaps of money.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
pile:
Русский
By meaning 1
pile:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
crowd:
pile:
type of data structure:

Origin

From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Prot

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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Forms

plural: heaps
Singularheap
Pluralheaps

regular

Synonyms

32 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

28 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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