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Meaning heap meaning

What does heap mean?
Definitions in simple English

heap Noun

— A heap is a big pile of things, usually thrown in the pile and not in any order. When we moved into our new house, the old owners had left a heap of garbage inside for us to deal with. I dumped all of my things into a heap on my bed so I could start them. — A heap is a lot of something. If that dog eats my shoes again, he will be in a heap of trouble. She earned heaps of money when she was 20 and now she doesn't have to work for the rest of her life.

heap Verb

— If you heap something, you pile it up high. is my favorite dessert. I heaped it so high on my plate that it looked like a little mountain. — If you heap something, you give a lot of it. The police heaped the children with praise after they would not get in a car with someone they did not know. Her boss surprised her by heaping the blame for the project onto her, when really, the problems were his own fault.

heap

— noun (= pile) a collection of objects laid on top of each other — noun (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, 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 — verb bestow in large quantities He heaped him with work She heaped scorn upon him — verb (= stack) arrange in stacks heap firewood around the fireplace stack your books up on the shelves — verb fill to overflow heap the platter with potatoes — noun (= bus) a car that is old and unreliable the fenders had fallen off that old bus

Synonyms heap synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as heap?

heap English » English

pile stack mass collection multitude mound pile up crowd accumulate accumulation group quantity collect set mountain lump bevy load herd gather assemble assemblage amass swarm rampart lot hoard great deal drift heap up flock bundle batch wood pile store roll raft pot plenty peck mess knoll hillock hatful good deal cumulus cluster body agglomerate wagonload

Topics heap topics

What do people use heap to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Gather
Physical actions Arrange Put

Load, pile
States Quantity Plural

Group of things

  • What words refer to a group of things that are put on top of each other?
    pile stack heap
Daily life Fire

Fireplace
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Store the harvest
States Quality Good Decay

Garbage

Conjugation heap conjugation

How do you conjugate heap?

heap · verb

Examples heap examples

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Simple sentences

Put the plan on the scrap heap.
It's a kinda ridicule unnecessary fibonacci-syllabic-heap.
Tom's compost heap got so hot that it spontaneously combusted.
Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut.
Get rid of that heap of old newspapers.
You do not have to pile everything in one heap.
Tom threw his clothes in a heap on the floor.

Movie subtitles

If we don't come to an agreement, Mr Helius, five minutes after my departure, your hangar, along with the nearly completed spaceship, will be reduced to a heap of rubble.
Have you come to heap dirt on Tony?
She's the top of the heap now.
Nothing but a heap of nonsense.
Maybe so, maybe so, but it was a heap more peaceful.
Miss Scarlett's feeling a heap better today, Mr. Rhett.
Make chief heap mad.
He'll heap it on us like on convicts.
There's a heap of mackintoshes in the flower room.
I'll buy the heap.
I've done a heap of things, but this ain't one of them.
He'll give me some because Lov and me, we certainly think a whole heap of each other.
Or will he object to finding his ego living in that human junk heap?
Mother's making a heap of to-do about you and me.
But it matters a heap to me, ma'am, how you understand.
I'd have been here a heap sooner if I could've.
Then he was going to climb back up here, unscrew the ladder. throw that out the window on a dump heap down below.
Suddenly she relaxed and fell in a heap.
Indians knowed a heap of things, Ben.
And ain't he got a heart, and feelings, and a heap of sense?
It's funny, I never noticed, you're a heap prettier than Mabel is.
I saw only a vague heap lying on the floor.
I want the money back that I've thrown into this rubbish heap.
I heard a heap of conversation, but..
There's a heap of mackintoshes in the flower room. Robert?
The Chief pulled a smart trick. Now when we pry into the vault, we'll get all the gold, and a heap of jewels for good measure.
Probably to the dung heap as usual.
The dung heap lies near the well.
This is pictures of the real dung heap.
Yes. In water from the dung heap.
So filth from the dung heap and the sewage pipe can not flow into it.
You better ditch the heap.

News and current affairs

If matters were to rest there, there would be every reason to heap praise on the statesmanship of President George W. Bush.

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