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Defenition of the word heap

    • Defenition of the word heap

      • A great number or large amount of things not placed in a pile.
      • An area of memory used for dynamic memory allocation.
      • To fill to overflow (e.g. a platter).
      • A specialized tree-based data structure that satisfies the heap property: if B is a child node of A, then key(A) ≥ key(B).
      • To put together several things in one pile; to arrange in stacks.
      • To bestow in large quantities (e.g. work).
      • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty"
      • a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"
      • fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"
      • bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"
      • a collection of objects laid on top of each other
      • arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
      • (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"; "it must have cost plenty"
      • a car that is old and unreliable
      • (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
      • fill to overflow
      • arrange in stacks
      • bestow in large quantities

    Synonyms for the word heap

      • batch
      • bus
      • deal
      • flock
      • good deal
      • great deal
      • hatful
      • jalopy
      • lot
      • mass
      • mess
      • mickle
      • mint
      • mound
      • muckle
      • peck
      • pile
      • plenty
      • pot
      • quite a little
      • raft
      • sight
      • slew
      • spate
      • stack
      • tidy sum
      • wad
      • whole lot
      • whole slew

    Similar words in the heap

      • heap up
      • pile up
      • stack up

    Hyponyms for the word heap

      • compost heap
      • compost pile
      • cord
      • deluge
      • dunghill
      • flood
      • funeral pyre
      • haymow
      • inundation
      • midden
      • muckheap
      • muckhill
      • pyre
      • rick
      • scrapheap
      • shock
      • slagheap
      • stack
      • stockpile
      • torrent
      • woodpile

    Hypernyms for the word heap

      • accumulation
      • aggregation
      • arrange
      • assemblage
      • auto
      • automobile
      • car
      • collection
      • dysphemism
      • fill
      • fill up
      • give
      • large indefinite amount
      • large indefinite quantity
      • machine
      • make full
      • motorcar
      • set up

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