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heap::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bus, jalopy |
| Type of | motorcar, dysphemism, automobile, machine, car, auto |
heap::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| Type of | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount |
| Has types | flood, inundation, torrent, deluge, haymow |
heap::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile |
| Type of | accumulation, collection, aggregation, assemblage |
| Has types | midden, compost heap, compost pile, dunghill, funeral pyre, muckheap, muckhill, pyre, scrapheap, shock, slagheap, stack, stockpile, woodpile |
Examples of heap
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Those seductive blobs of color could end up on the same intellectual scrap heap.
From the washingtonpost.com
Everyone remembers the collision and how Posey and Sandoval fell down in a heap.
From the sacbee.com
Farmers have long known the value legumes have for enriching their compost heap.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
The LIA suffered when it turned to Wall Street for help to manage the cash heap.
From the bloomberg.com
Otherwise, all his backers will have toiled on the heap of ridicule for nothing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Its prolific leaves shade the compost heap, from which it derives its nutrition.
From the theepochtimes.com
Medical-school skeletons with misaligned femurs don't get sent to the dust heap.
From the orlandosentinel.com
These winds heap sand into dunes and batter cypresses into artistic contortions.
From the sfgate.com
Reforms and deflating gas prices should toss the $2 fare plan on the scrap heap.
From the buffalonews.com
- Bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"
- Pile: a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- Batch: (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"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- Stack: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
- Bus: a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"
- Fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"
- The Heap is the name of three fictional comic book muck-monsters, the original of which first appeared in Hillman Periodicals' Air Fighters #3 (Dec. 1942), during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. ...
- In abstract algebra, a heap (sometimes also called a groud) is a mathematical generalisation of a group. ...
