heap

English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: hēp, IPA: /hiːp/, SAMPA: /hi:p/

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• Rhymes: -iːp

Etymology

Middle English heep, from Old English hēap, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (cf. Dutch hoop, Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos ‘hill’ (cf. Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi ‘stack’, Avestan kaofa)

Noun

heap (plural heaps)

1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
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. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:lot

Translations

data structure consisting of trees

Czech: halda (cs) f. Finnish: keko (fi) German: Heap (de) m.

Norwegian: heap (no) Swedish: heap (sv) c. Turkish: öbek (tr)

pile

Armenian: կույտ (hy) (kuyt), զանգված (hy) (zangvaç) Esperanto: stako (eo) Finnish: kasoittain (fi), läjäpäin (fi) German: Haufen (de) m.

Italian: pila (it), cumulo (it) Polish: sterta (pl) f., kupa (pl) f. Portuguese: pilha (pt) f. Turkish: öbek (tr)

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

Hungarian: halom Italian: mucchio m. (1,2), cumulo m. (3) Malay: melambak Polish: kupa f. Portuguese: monte m. Russian: куча (ru) (kúča) f. Spanish: montón m., pila m. Slovak: kopa f. Slovene: kup m. Swedish: hop c. Telugu: కుప్ప (kuppa)

Verb

heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)

1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.

   He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
   • 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.

3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

   They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

Translations

• Dutch: hopen (nl)
• German: Haufen (de)
• Portuguese: amontoar, empilhar
• Spanish: amontonar (es), apilar (es), colmar (es)

Anagrams

• epha
• HAPE
• hep A, HEPA

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Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *haupaz, whence also Old High German houf. Compare also Old Norse hópr

Noun

hēap m.

1. heap

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West Frisian

Noun

heap c.

1. heap, pile
2. mass, gang, horde