heap
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1.1
- noun
- /hip/
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montón
- When Stuart finally let me go, I collapsed in a heap on the fluted rubber floor.
- a trash heap
- a garbage heap
- a rubbish heap
How is the little baby compost heap Desperate doing?
- How is the little baby compost heap Desperate doing?
- After they go a certain distance, the woman grabs some crack off the seat, falls off the car collapses in an unconscious heap.
- The fly did not create the trash heap, right?
- The very thing that's that servants who steal not from the heap, but the seed corn.
- So how tall you are, how big a heap is, yes.
- If you hate Elon Musk, it's a fart on a trash heap.
Examples
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Flinging the door open, I shone the flash around the heap of old furniture.
Fiction book (1990) -
The children built a heap of leaves in the yard before jumping into it.
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Get that heap out of the way!
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Now it's more like a trash heap.
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Kind of hard to believe it was just a garbage heap.
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My, what a big heap you've made!
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Now the fish lay in little heaps here and there on the carpet.
Fiction book (1992) -
Against the opposite wall, a shapeless heap of blankets lay on an old mattress.
Fiction book (1991) -
The cookstove is cold, and the fireplace has a heap of ash, but no embers.
Fiction book (1992) -
After cleaning the garage, we found a heap of old tools that we no longer needed.
Synonyms
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1.9
A heap of things put together
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1.0
A pile of things placed one on top of another
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2.1
A small pile of things put on top of each other
A loose heap of different things gathered together
A large amount of things collected together, often in a stack
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Etymology
Heap began as a simple picture of a 'pile' or group of things, so imagine a messy stack of clothes or leaves; that image is why a heap means a pile of things.