Meaning

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people..

Definitions by Sense

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. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
8. (transitive) To pile in a heap.

Example Sentences

A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences

He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense

a heap of earth; a heap of stones

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.

Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.

a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations

I have noticed a heap of things in my life.

You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

Word Forms

• heaps
• heaping
• heaped

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When Should You Use Heap?

Use heap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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