Heap

Noun

 * 1) A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
 * 2) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
 * 3) 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)  A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lot

Verb

 * 1)  To pile in a heap.
 * He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
 * 1)  To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
 * 2) * 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
 * Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
 * News of that vanished Arabian,
 * A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
 * 1)  To supply in great quantity.
 * They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

Adjectives for Heap
moldering; promiscuous; mountainous; tumbled; contorted; dismaying; enormous; undistinguishable; solemn; compost; wretched; writhing; convulsed; bony; wind-driven; sprawled; silvery; shapeless; lifeless; apparent; hoarded; inextricable; despicable.

Verbs for Heap
accumulate into—; amass—; cast into—; col¬lect in—; cone—; form—; gather into—; level—; lie in—; load into—; pile up—; relegate to—; rise in—; stand in—; store up—; throw into—; —grows; —overwhelms; — rises.

Adverbs for Heap
massively; promiscuously; impartially; confusedly; profusely; indiscriminately; contortedly; convulsively; shapelessly; inextricably.

Thesaurus
abundance, accord, accumulate, accumulation, administer, afford, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, allot, allow, amass, amassment, amount, anthill, army, assemble, auto, autocar, automobile, award, backlog, bag, bank, bank up, barrel, batch, bestow, bestow on, boat, bottle, box, budget, buggy, bunch, burden, bus, can, car, charge, choke, chunk, clump, cluster, clutch, cock, cohue, collect, collection, commissariat, commissary, communicate, confer, congeries, conglomeration, considerable, cord, cornucopia, count, crate, crowd, crush, cumulate, cumulation, deal, deal out, deluge, deposit, dish out, dispense, dog, dole, dole out, donate, dose, drift, dump, dune, embankment, extend, fill, flock, flood, fork out, freight, galaxy, garner, garner up, gather, gather into barns, gathering, gift, gift with, give, give cheerfully, give freely, give out, glean, gob, gobs, good deal, grant, great deal, group, hand out, harvest, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, heap up, heap upon, heaps, help to, hide, hill, hoard, hoard up, hold, horde, host, hunk, impart, inventory, issue, jalopy, jam, jillion, keep, lade, larder, large amount, lashings, lavish, lavish upon, lay up, legion, let have, load, loads, lot, lots, lumber, lump, machine, mass, material, materials, materiel, measure, mess, mete, mete out, million, mint, mob, molehill, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, mound, mountain, mow, much, multitude, munitions, not hold back, number, offer, oodles, open the purse, pack, pack away, panoply, parcel, part, peck, pile, pile up, piles, plenitude, plenty, plethora, pocket, portion, pot, pots, pour, power, present, press, proffer, provide, provisionment, provisions, put up, pyramid, quantities, quantity, quite a little, rabble, raft, rafts, rain, ration, rations, reap, render, repertoire, repertory, rick, rout, ruck, sack, save, save up, scads, scores, sea, secrete, serve, set aside, shell out, ship, shock, shower, shower down upon, sight, slew, slews, slip, small amount, snow, snowdrift, spare no expense, spare nothing, spate, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stack up, stacks, stash, stock, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, store up, stores, stow, sum, superabundance, supplies, supply, supply on hand, tender, thousand, throng, tidy sum, tons, treasure, treasure up, treasury, trillion, tub, voiture, vouchsafe, wad, wads, wheels, whole slew, wreck, yield

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

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: keko
 * German: Heap


 * Swedish: heap
 * Turkish: öbek


 * Armenian: ,
 * Esperanto: stako
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Haufen


 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: sterta,
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish: öbek


 * Albanian: grumbull
 * Basque: meta
 * Catalan: munt, pila
 * Croatian: hrpa, gomila
 * Czech: hromada, kupa
 * Dutch: hoop
 * Esperanto: monteto
 * French: tas
 * West Frisian: heap
 * German: Haufen, Haufe
 * Greek: σωρός


 * Hungarian: halom
 * Italian: mucchio (1,2), cumulo  (3)
 * Malay: melambak
 * Polish: kupa
 * Portuguese: monte
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: montón, pila
 * Slovak: kopa
 * Slovene: kup
 * Swedish: hop
 * Telugu: కుప్ప (kuppa)

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Portuguese: amontoar, empilhar
 * Spanish:, ,

Anagrams

 * epha
 * HAPE
 * hep A, HEPA

Etymology
, whence also Old High German houf. Compare also Old Norse hópr

Noun

 * 1) heap

Noun
heap


 * 1) heap, pile
 * 2) mass, gang, horde