heap

Meaning

1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
3. A great number or large quantity of things.
4. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount

pile

good deal

wood pile

lorry load

tidy sum

large quantity

quite a little

waggonload

cover with earth

great amount of

in a heap

many things

rig up

slag heap

whole lot

huge mound

piled up high

tiering

focalise

earth mound

give someone the whole amount

group in general

quantity collection

stellar group

a lot of

full measure

mass of people

take along

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hiːp/

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)).