Heap

Definition: Heap

Heap

Noun

1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.

2. (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".

3. A car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus".

Verb

1. Bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him".

2. Arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves".

3. Fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes".

Date "heap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Heap 1. An area of memory used for dynamic memory allocation where blocks of memory are allocated and freed in an arbitrary order and the pattern of allocation and size of blocks is not known until run time. Typically, a program has one heap which it may use for several different purposes. Heap is required by languages in which functions can return arbitrary data structures or functions with free variables (see closure). In C functions malloc and free provide access to the heap. Contrast stack. See also dangling pointer. 2. A data structure with its elements partially ordered (sorted) such that finding either the minimum or the maximum (but not both) of the elements is computationally inexpensive (independent of the number of elements), while both adding a new item and finding each subsequent smallest/largest element can be done in O(log n) time, where n is the number of elements. Formally, a heap is a binary tree with a key in each node, such that all the leaves of the tree are on two adjacent levels; all leaves on the lowest level occur to the left and all levels, except possibly the lowest, are filled; and the key in the root is at least as large as the keys in its children (if any), and the left and right subtrees (if they exist) are again heaps. Note that the last condition assumes that the goal is finding the minimum quickly. Heaps are often implemented as one-dimensional arrays. Still assuming that the goal is finding the minimum quickly the invariant is heap[i] <= heap[2i] and heap[i] <= heap[2i+1] for all i, where heap[i] denotes the i-th element, heap[1] being the first. Heaps can be used to implement priority queues or in sort algorithms. (1996-02-26). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Bible	Heap When Joshua took the city of Ai (Josh. 8), he burned it and "made it an heap [Heb. tel] for ever" (8:28). The ruins of this city were for a long time sought for in vain. It has been at length, however, identified with the mound which simply bears the name of "Tel." "There are many Tels in modern Palestine, that land of Tels, each Tel with some other name attached to it to mark the former site. But the site of Ai has no other name 'unto this day.' It is simply et-Tel, 'the heap' par excellence." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Literature	Heap Struck all of a heap. To be struck with astonishment. "Etre ahuri. " The idea is that of confusion, having the wits bundled together in a heap. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Math	A tree where every node has a key more extreme (greater or less) than or equal to the key of its parent. (references)
Mining	A. Scot. To load up a tub (car) or truck above the top of the sides b. The soil carried above the sides of a body or bucket. (references)
Multilingual Slang	Quebecois (bazou). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
HEAP	English	High explosive armour piercing	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Heap

Synonyms: batch (n), bus (n), cumulus (n), deal (n), flock (n), good deal (n), great deal (n), hatful (n), jalopy (n), lot (n), mass (n), mess (n), mickle (n), mint (n), mound (n), muckle (n), peck (n), pile (n), plenty (n), pot (n), quite a little (n), raft (n), sight (n), slew (n), spate (n), stack (n), tidy sum (n), wad (n), whole lot (n), whole slew (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta;accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness).
	Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.
Greatness	Great quan quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency).
Redundancy	Accumulation; (store); heap; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden.
Size	Mountain, mound; heap; (assemblage).
Store	Stock in trade, supply; heap; (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.
	Deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect; lay in store;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We're nearly at the top of the heap! (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) And you spell like a dung heap. And you have no knowledge of your potential (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson.) Hey, Anderson, you selling that junk heap for parts (Life with Louie; writing credit: Martin Miehe-Renard; Mette Andersen Ottesen) Night-night, it's time for bye-byes, it's been a great day, thanks a heap. Now it's time for everyone to go to sleep (Shock Treatment; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman) Gee if I'd known I was gonna get caught, I'd have done pretty much better for myself. My dad's car---what a heap! (The Young Stranger; writing credit: Robert Dozier)
Lyrics	Red red wine you give me whole heap of zing (Red Red Wine; performing artist: UB40) Whole heap of zing mek me do me own thing (Red Red Wine; performing artist: UB40)
Movie/TV Titles	Top of the Heap (1972) Heap Big Hepcat (1960) Making a Compost Heap (1942) Heap Big Chief (1919) Top of the Heap (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Heap O' Livin (reference) Heap of Trouble (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Shaped Board Books/Board) (reference) Introduction to Evaluation, Design and Operation of Precious Metal Heap Leach Projects (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The world's children: on a Korean rubbish heap. / UNICEF photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		I lose-a my baggage, I shouted loudly. You savvy? baggage heap gone! coach vamoose, get me?. Credit: Library of Congress.
	A sixshooter in a mittened fist appeared over a rock heap at the roadside. Credit: Library of Congress.		Group portrait at Constantin Brancusi's studio of Brancusi, Tristan Tzara, unidentified woman, Mina Loy, Jane Heap, and Margaret Anderson. Credit: Library of Congress.
	A Heap of bones in the cemetery [Necropolis Cristobal Colon], Havana. Credit: Library of Congress.		Havana, heap of bones in the cemetery, Necropolis Cristobal Colon. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents for each 100 pound sack, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.		Coal miners' homes by slate and slag heap, Caples, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Closeup of shack near burning slag heap on main county road near Mohegan, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.		Negro cane cutter's dinner pail and jacket on heap of cut sugarcane for USSC (United States Sugar Corporation). Clewiston, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Jean De La BruyFre	A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Lao-Tzu	A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
Lord Chesterfield	History is but a confused heap of facts.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	The bewildered singer searched through the heap of music lying on an adjoining table, but it was not there, either
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They deposited the dead in a heap in the little Rue Mondetour of which they were still masters
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Alas, why would you heap this care on me
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Ma chuckled and took down a heap of tin plates from a shelf
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Bolivia	The best immediate sales prospects for mining equipment are in supplying the needs of medium-sized open pit mines and heap leaching operations and small-/medium-sized alluvial gold mining cooperatives. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	But we stood tall and proclaimed that communism was destined for the ash heap of history.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Heap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.26% of the time. "Heap" is used about 737 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.26%	702	9,520
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.79%	28	65,706
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.54%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	0.41%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	737	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "heap" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Heap	Last name	1,000	16,508
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "heap".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Ai	N/A	Biblical	Heap
Galeed	N/A	Biblical	The heap of witness
Gallim	N/A	Biblical	Who heap up
Geliloth	N/A	Biblical	Heap
Gilead	N/A	Biblical	The heap or mass of testimony
Gilgal	N/A	Biblical	Heap
Golgotha	N/A	Biblical	A heap of skulls
Goliath	N/A	Biblical	Heap
Irad	N/A	Biblical	Heap of empire
Iram	N/A	Biblical	A high heap
Jegar-sahadutha	N/A	Biblical	Heap of witness
Talmai	N/A	Biblical	Heap of waters
Telabib	N/A	Biblical	A heap of new grain
Tel-melah	N/A	Biblical	Heap of salt
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "heap": a heap of people ♦ all of a heap ♦ at the top of the heap ♦ collapse heap ♦ compost heap ♦ dung heap ♦ fall in a heap ♦ garbage heap ♦ gravel heap ♦ heap abuse on smb. ♦ heap clouds ♦ heap coals of fire on one's head ♦ heap dirt upon ♦ heap of corn ♦ heap of junk ♦ heap of rubble ♦ heap of ruins ♦ heap of straw ♦ heap of twings ♦ heap Ossa upon Pelion ♦ heap smth. up ♦ heap together ♦ heap up ♦ heap with ♦ junk heap ♦ leaky heap ♦ manure heap ♦ muck heap ♦ old heap of car ♦ put in a heap ♦ ready for the scrap heap ♦ refuse heap ♦ rubbish heap ♦ scrap heap ♦ slag heap ♦ struck all of a heap ♦ throw on the scrap heap ♦ trash heap. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "heap": heap-leaching.
	Ending with "heap": scrap-heap.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "heap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		stapel (accumulation, crowd, mass, multitude, pile, stack), skare (accumulation, are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, group, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), menigte (accumulation, crowd, mass, multitude, pile), massa (accumulation, crowd, lump, mass, multitude, pile), klomp (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, herd, pack, pile, set, stack), trop (are, bevy, cluster, collection, flock, group, herd, pack, set), skool (are, bench, bevy, cluster, collection, group, herd, pack, school, set), kudde (are, bevy, cluster, collection, flock, group, herd, pack, set), akkumuleer (accumulate, pile up, stack). (various references)

Albanian		turrë (pile, roll), tog (cluster, mass, pile), stivë (congeries, pile), shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), sasi e madhe (avalanche, bagful, bulk, deal, load, mint, ream, rout), pirg (aggregation, bank, clamp, cumulus, drift, heaps of, huddle, hump, jumble, mountain, pile, stack), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, suffuse, tuck up, wrap), mbledh tog, mal (fell, heaps of, mountain, pile), ia mbush me majë, grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, get together, hoard, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite), grumbull hekurishtesh (scrap iron), grumbull (abatis, aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill), bëj kapicë. (various references)

Arabic		‏كومة (bank, mound, pack, pilau, pile, shock, stack), ‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ‏كدس (accumulate, amass, cumulate, get together, heap up, overstock, pile, pile up, stack), ‏تل (barrow, down, elevation, highland, hill, hummock, knoll, monticule, mound), ‏ركام (bank, cumulus, drift, jumble, mess, moraine, morass, mound, pile, stuff). (various references)

Bulgarian		трупам (cluster, congregate, gather, hive, lay up, pile, roll up, run, run up, settle, shovel, store, treasure up), таратайка (bone shaker, crock, flivver, rattler, rattletrap, shandrydan), купчина (batch, clamp, cluster, huddle, mass, pile, ruck, stack, tumble), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), камара (chamber, house, mass, pile), отрупвам (clutter, heap smth. up, heap up, overwhelm, pile, ply, smother, snow under), обсипвам (assail, beset, besiege, deluge, intersperse, load, pepper, smother, sow, spot, strew, stud), насипище, натрупвам (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank, congest, cumulate, deck, garner, huddle, lumber, pile, pyramid, shovel up, stack, store), маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes), препълвам (fill up, heap smth. up, overbrim, overcharge, overfill, overflow, pack out), правя на куп (mound). (various references)

Chinese		� � (a mass, a pile, stack). (various references)

Czech		hromada (dump, host, mound, pile, stack, welter), halda (stack), spousta (crowd, heaps of, host, legion, load, lots, pack, Peck, plenty, spate, stack, volume), naskládat na hromadu. (various references)

Danish		mængd (accumulation, crowd, mass, multitude, pile). (various references)

Dutch		stapel (accumulation, crazy, crowd, insane, mad, mass, multitude, nuts, pile, stack), ophopen (accumulate, amass, pile up, stack), opeenhopen (accumulate, amass, pile up, stack), accumuleren (accumulate, pile up, stack). (various references)

Esperanto		stako (pile, stack), aro (are, bevy, collection, group, herd, set, square decametre), amaso (crowd, mass, multitude, pile), amasigi (amass, pile up, stack), akumuli (accumulate, pile up, stack). (various references)

Faeroese		hópur (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, group, herd, lump, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, swarm), stakkur (column, pile, pillar, stack), savn (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, herd, museum, pack, set), rúgva (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, herd, pack, pile, set, stack), mongd (accumulation, crowd, lump, mass, multitude, pile, quantity), flokkur (are, bevy, class, cluster, collection, faction, gang, group, herd, pack, party, set, side, squad, swarm, troop, troupe, type). (various references)

Farsi		پرکردن (Brim, Cram, Frank, Full, Glut, Load, Stow, Stud, Stuff, Suffuse, Thwack), پشته (Barrow, Embankment, Hill, Hillock, Mound, Rick, Stack), کپه (Congeries, Mass, Pile, Ruck), کومه (Congeries, Pile, Rick, Stack), توده کردن (Aggregate, Amass, Cumulate, Hill, Lump, Pack, Pile, Ruck, Shock, Stack, Stockpile), توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), انبوه (Aggregate, Bike, Clump, Collective, Congeries, Dense, Gross, Luxuriant, Rank, Riffraff, Thick, Voluminous). (various references)

Finnish		kasa (accumulation, crowd, lot, mass, multitude, pile, stack). (various references)

French		tas, amas, masse, foule (herd), entasser (heap up), accumuler. (various references)

Frisian		skelf (pile, stack). (various references)

German		menge (accumulation, amount, assemblage, bulk, bundle, crowd, deal, forest, host, load, lot, mass, measure, mob, multitude, pile, plenty, portion, quantity, quantum, quiverful, set, squash), haufen (accumulation, aggregate, batches, bunch, bundle, cloud, cluster, crowd, flock, gang, huddle, load, lot, mass, mob, mound, multitude, pile, slew, stack, throng), häufen (accumulate, amass, heap up, pile up, stack), halde (acclivity, hill, hillside, landfill, mound, slagheap, slope). (various references)

Greek		σωρόσ (cluster, collection, crop, drift, hoard, mass, pile, shoal, stack, stook, tumulus), σωρός (pile, stack), σωρεύω (lump, pile, stack), σωρεία (lost), συσσώρευση (accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, cumulation, hoarding), συσσωρεύω (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, hoard, mass, pile), στοιβάδα (pile, stack), Σωρός (clump). (various references)

Hebrew		לערום (accumulate, amass, pile, stack), ל�"�'�"יש, ל�'�"וש (overcrowd, pile, surfeit), ל�'בב (lumber, pile), תל (hillock, knoll, mound, pile), תפוח (apple, ball, pile, puffed out, swollen, tumid), שפך (dump, estuary, mouth of river), �'ל (mound, pile, wave), �'�"יש (stack, stook of corn), צבור (accumulated, community, conglomerated, congregation, gathered, pile, piled, public), סואר (pile of wood, stack), � �" (backwater, wall). (various references)

Hungarian		rakás (batch, charging, clump, conglomerate, heaps of, lump, pack, parcel, passel, pile, stack, tuck), halom (accumulation, batch, clamp, clump, congeries, conglomerate, cop, dump, hillock, mass, mound, Peck, pile, stack, tump). (various references)

Icelandic		hlaðast upp (accumulate, pile up, stack), safnast saman (accumulate, pile up, stack), safna (accumulate, pile up, stack). (various references)

Indonesian		tumpukan (agglomeration, bank, mound, stack), tumpuk (pile, stack), timbunan (accumulation, hoard), gundukan (pile, rand), bumbun (pile, shady, shelter for hunters). (various references)

Italian		gruppo (are, band, batch, bevy, bunch, clump, cluster, collection, corps, element group, family, group, herd, knot, lobby, lot, pack, panel, party, set, square, stream, troop, unit), folla (accumulation, crowd, crush, drove, host, huddle, mass, mob, multitude, pile, rabble, throng). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		重ね (course, layer, pile, set, suits), パ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu", heal, hear, hearing, heat, heat pipe, heat pump, heater, heel, heel out, hero, hero package, hymen, interview, listening comprehension, public hearing), 山積み (huge mound), 山 (climax, critical point, mountain, pile). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'ープ , かさね (course, layer, pile, set, suits), やまづみ (huge mound), やま (climax, critical point, mountain, pile). (various references)

Korean		�"미 (heaps, PILE, Piles, stack, stacks). (various references)

Manx		dash (dash, small pile), crannag (dock, lookout, pulpit, rostrum, tribune), chummal (pile up, to pile up), carnane (cairn, carn, dump, hutch, kitty, mound, rampart), carnanaghey (accumulate, clamp, lump, pack, pack of earth, stock up), carn (cairn, carn, raise, stack of stone), butt (a little crowd, mark, stamina, strength). (various references)

Norwegian		haug (knoll). (various references)

Papiamen		monton (accumulation, crowd, mass, multitude, pile), kuadria (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, herd, pack, set), grupo (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, herd, pack, set), akumulá (accumulate, pile up, stack). (various references)

Pig Latin		eaphay.(various references)

Polish		masa (accumulation, crowd, mass, multitude, pile). (various references)

Portuguese		pilha (accumulation, bulk, cell, crowd, mass, multitude, pile, rick, ruck, stack), empilhar (accumulate, amass, bulk, pile, rick, stack, stack up), amontoar (accumulate, amass, bank, clamp, clump, conglomerate, cram, crowd, hill, lump, mound, pack, pile, pile up, stack), acumular (accumulate, amass, bank, build up, coffer, collect, combine, congest, cumulate, fund, jam, load, mass, mound, pack, pile up, stack, stash, stuff), acervo (accumulation, collection, crowd, drift, estate, mass, multitude, pile). (various references)

Romanian		maldãr (bundle, pile, ream), înghesui (accumulate, amass, bay, beat a path, corner, cram, crib, crowd, jam, jostle, nip, pack, pile up, squeeze, stack, stuff), îngrãmãdi (accumulate, acerbate, aggregate, assemble, clump, cram, crowd, drift, garner, gather, huddle, jam, lumber, lump, pack, pile, pile up, put in a heap, squeeze, throng), îngråmådi (accumulate, amass, pile up, stack), acumula (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, augment, garner, hoard, pile, stockpile, store), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop), adunãturã (amalgam, congeries, crowd, gathering, group, hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, mishmash, mob, swarm, troop), adunare (accumulation, addition, aggregate, assemblage, assembly, cluster, collection, conference, congregation, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, reunion, rodeo, sitting, social, tot, turn out), buluc (higgledy-piggledy, troop), cantitate (amount, quantity, rate, value), claie (crowd, fleece, hayrick, haystack, Rick, shock, snag, stack), copleşi (crush, flood, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, shower, smother, stun, whelm), ghioturã (hosts), încãrca (bedizen, burden, charge, encumber, glut, inflate, load, load with ball, pack, pile up, prime), grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), vraf (bale), masiv (big, bulky, burly, fat, full, heavy, massif, massive, massively, massy, portly, rugged, solid, stout, substantial, unwieldy, voluminous, wholesale), morman (cob, drift, Hill, mass, mound, pile, stack), movilã (Barrow, hillock, hump, knob, knoll, mound, rising, tumulus, up), muşuroi (Hill), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), munte (Hill, Mount, mountain), nãmol (muck, mud, ooze, silt), numãr mare, puzderie (army, cloud, drops, dust, flakes, forest, host, infinite, infinity, shoal, ton), spuzã, teanc (bale, mound, pile, sheaf, shoal), troian (drift, snow drift, trojan, wall), umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, flock, herd, mob, multitude, populace, press, rabble, riff raff, squash, the many, troop). (various references)

Russian		куча (clamp, congeries, cumulus, jumble, mountain, pile, pileup, stack), груда (huddle, mass, pile), ворох (pile), осыпать (besprinkle, cover, cover with, inundate), отвал (moldboard, mouldboard, muck), накоплять (amass, pile), нагружать (burden, load, pile, weight), нагромождать куча, нагромождать (heap up, stack), навалить (heap up, pile, pile up), наваливать, множество (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a world of, abundance, array, bags of, cloud, crowd, dozens, ensemble, great number, legion, manifold, mass, mountain, multiples, multiplicity, multitude, ocean, oodles, orgy, pack, pile, plurality, set, stacks of, the many, the million, thousand, throng), масса (army, array, bulk, congeries, crowd, handful, heaps of, lashings, lot of, lots, lots of, lotsa, mass, mountain, multitude, passel, paste, ream, regiment, ruck, stock, stuff, the million, wealth of, weight, whale, wilderness). (various references)

Scottish		dùn (a heap, fortress, mound, mount). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hrpa (accumulation, batch, pile), sipati (pour), nagomilati (accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, garner, hill, hoard, lay up, pile, pile up, stock, stock up, stockpile), mnoštvo (array, crop, grist, lashings, legion, lot, lot: the lot, lots of, mass, million: the million, multiplicity, multitude, myriad, oodles, pack, plenty, raft, scads, shoal, slew), masa (mass, matter), krntija (rattletrap, shandrydan, tin lizzie, wreck), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, flock, huddle, mob, pile, pileup, plump, stack, swarm, throng). (various references)

Spanish		pila (battery, bowl, cell, pier, pile, primary cell, trough), montón (bagful, bank, batch, caboodle, clamp, congeries, cumulus, deluge, drift, dump, huddle, load, mass, mound, mountain, pack, packet, parcel, Peck, pile, raft, ream, scads, slew, stack), grupo (are, band, bank, batch, bevy, block, bracket, bunch, camp, clump, cluster, collection, coterie, Covey, crowd, delegacy, delegation, gang, group, herd, huddle, knot, lot, mob, outfit, pack, panel, parcel, party, posse, pride, raft, range, set, square decametre, team, tie, troop, troupe, unit). (various references)

Swedish		stack (ant hill, pile, rick, stack, stung), hop (accumulation, batch, bunch, Covey, crowd, herd, huddle, mass, multitude, pile, ruck), skock (crowd, flock, herd, huddle, troop), hög (clamp, elevated, exalted, high, high pitched, hillock, huddle, lofty, loud, mound, pile, tall). (various references)

Thai		รถ บ้านหรือสิ่งอื่นที่เก่า / ทรุ�"โทรม (junk heap). (various references)

Turkish		hurda yığını (scrap heap), yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, freight, hand over, impose, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay on, lay smth. at one's door, load, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, plant, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), tepeleme doldurmak (pile), küme (aggregate, aggregation, bank, clamp, cloud, clump, cluster, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, division, family, group, league, mass, pile, stack, tuft), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fall out, fallout, junk, litter, refuse, residuum, rubbish, rubble, scrap, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), bir yığın (bags of, many, plenty), bir sürü (a great number of, heaps of, loads of, quiverful, tons of, waggonload), ağzına kabar doldurmak, öbek (group, lump, mound, tuft). (various references)

Turkmen		topbak (a lot of, pile), dцs (pile). (various references)

Ukrainian		терикон (slagheap), купа (accumulation, bale, barrel, batch, clamp, cluster, congeries, cumulus, deal, huddle, lump, pile, stack, swarm, throng), відвал (dump, stockpile), накопичувати (accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up, put aside, save), звалювати в купу (huddle). (various references)

Vietnamese		sửng sốt (amazedly, consternated, gaspingly), rụng rời (consternated), mất vía, lắm điếng người. (various references)

Welsh		ysgafnu (pile), tyrru (amass, crowd together), twr (crowd, group), tomen (dunghill), tocyn (hillock, pack, ticket), sypio (bundle, pack), swp (batch, cluster, mass), pentyrru (accumulate, amass, pile), pentwr (pile), curnennu (stack), cruglwytho (overload, pile up), cruglwyth (pile), crug (abscess, barrow, blister, hillock, multitude, tumulus), cludair (load, wood-pile). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	du, gurum. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acervat, acervi, acervis, acervo, acervorum, acervos, acervum, acervus, aggerem, aggeres, aggeribus, aggeris, aggerum, aggestum, caterva, collectum, collectus, compilare, congerie, congeriem, congeries, construatur, constructa, constructum, construens, construxerunt, construximus, construxitque, cumulare, cumulus, grex, ingerebant, massa, multitudo, strue, struem, strues, struices, turba. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 22
Latin	405	Vulgate	Prunam enim congregabis super caput eius et Dominus reddet tibi
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Forsothe colis thou shalt gadere togidere vp on the hed of hym; and the Lord shal yelde to thee.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward thee.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 22
Cebuano	Kay ikaw magatapok ug mga baga sa kalayo ibabaw sa iyang ulo, Ug si Jehova magabalus kanimo.
Croatian	Jer mu zgræeš ugljevlje na glavu i Jahve æe ti platiti.
Danish	da sanker du gloende Kul på hans Hoved, og HERREN lønner dig for det.
Dutch	Want gij zult vurige kolen op zijn hoofd hopen, en de HEERE zal het u vergelden.
Finnish	Sillä niin sinä kokoat tulisia hiiliä hänen päänsä päälle, ja Herra sen sinulle palkitsee.
French	Car ce sont des charbons ardents que tu amasses sur sa tête, Et l`Éternel te récompensera.
German	Denn du wirst feurige Kohlen auf sein Haupt häufen, und der HERR wird dir's vergelten.
Haitian Creole	Lè sa a, w'a fè l' wont anpil. Seyè a va rekonpanse ou.
Hungarian	Mert elevenszenet gyûjtesz az õ fejére, és az Úr megfizeti néked.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Dengan demikian engkau membuat dia menjadi malu dan TUHAN akan memberkatimu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	karena dalam berbuat demikian engkau menimbunkan bara api di atas kepalanya, maka Tuhan akan membalasnya kepadamu kelak.
Italian	perché così ammasserai carboni ardenti sul suo capo e il Signore ti ricompenser� .
Maori	Ka purangatia hoki e koe he waro kapura ki tona mahunga, a ka utua tau e Ihowa.
Norwegian	For da sanker du gloende kull på hans hode, og Herren skal gjengjelde dig det.
Portuguese	porque assim lhe amontoarás brasas sobre a cabeça, e o Senhor te recompensará.
Rumanian	Cqci fqcknd awa, aduni cqrbuni aprinwi pe capul lui, wi Domnul kyi va rqsplqti. -
Spanish	pues así carbones encendidos tú amontonas sobre su cabeza, y Jehovah te recompensará.
Swedish	så samlar du glödande kol på hans huvud, och HERREN skall vedergälla dig.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "heap": heaped, heaping, heaps. (additional references)
	Words ending with "heap": cheap, dustheap, overheap, scrapheap, upheap. (additional references)
	Words containing "heap": cheapen, cheapened, cheapening, cheapens, cheaper, cheapest, cheapie, cheapies, cheapish, cheapishly, cheapjack, cheapjacks, cheaply, cheapness, cheapnesses, cheapo, cheapos, cheaps, cheapskate, cheapskates, dustheaps, overheaped, overheaping, overheaps, scrapheaps, upheaped, upheaping, upheaps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Heap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eap, eha, ehap, ehipa, ehp, geap, haep, hape, happ, haup, hea, heab, Heaf, heah, heak, healp, heao, heape, heav, heca, heeb, Hehai, heian, heib, heip, hejab, Hepa, hepap, hepat, hepb, herp, heup, heva, hiab, hiah, Hiep, hijab, hiop, hipa, hoab, hoea, hopa, huab, Huapi, Huip, huup, veap, yeap, zeap. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "heap" (pronounced hē"p)
2	-ē" p	asleep, beep, bleep, bopeep, cheap, creep, deep, jeep, keep, leap, peep, reap, seep, sheep, sleep, steep, sweep, veep, weep.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: epha.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-p"
	-1 letter: ape, hae, hap, hep, pah, pea, peh.
	-2 letters: ae, ah, eh, ha, he, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-p"
	+1 letter: aleph, chape, cheap, ephah, ephas, heaps, peach, phage, phase, raphe, shape.
	+2 letters: alephs, apache, chapel, chapes, cheapo, cheaps, daphne, eparch, ephahs, hamper, happed, happen, hapten, harped, harper, hasped, heaped, hepcat, heptad, hyphae, pakeha, pashed, pashes, peachy, peahen, pechan, phages, phased, phases, phrase, phylae, pleach, preach, raphae, raphes, rhaphe, seraph, shaped, shapen, shaper, shapes, sherpa, spahee, spathe, tephra, teraph, threap, upheap.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
heap	153	heap not	3
imogen heap	46	heap rubbish	3
heap sort	23	top of the heap	3
heap max min	17	filter heap	3
heap uriah	14	heap ohio	3
todd heap	11	allocator heap memory multi	2
compost heap	9	data heap structure	2
heap ticket	7	heap java	2
heap top yankee	7	heap leaching	2
heap program	6	heap tickets.com	2
fibonacci heap	6	dung heap	2
heap rent	5	c flight heap philippine	2
heap memory	5	california heap program	2
heap imogen lyrics	5	algoritmos heap sort	2
heap flight	4	california heap	2
class heap java	4	todd heap jersey	2
heap stack	4	heap sort.ppt	2
bird edgar heap	3	fraggle heap rock trash	2
heap airfare	3	heap java sort	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Heap

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