Heaps

Definition: Heaps

Heaps

Adverb

1. (informal) very much; "thanks heaps".

Noun

1. A large number or amount; "made lots of new friends".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "heaps" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

HEAPS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Heaps

Parsimony

Phrase: desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia; "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill"; "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures".

Crosswords: Heaps

I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies in junk heaps. And I promised myself that I'd never see the day when my young-uns had want (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

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Books

• Beyond the Stone Heaps (Scarlet Riders, No 3) (reference)

• Certain shell heaps of the St. John's river, Florida, hitherto unexplored (LC History-America-E) (reference)

• Excavation of two stone heaps at site S11/245 in the Tapapakanga Regional Park, South Auckland (reference)

• Heaps : How to Be Spirit Led in Your Giving So You Can Be Blessed Heaps (reference)

• Old London street cries and the cries of today : with heaps of quaint cuts (reference)

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Music

• Heaps Cool: 20 Legit Hits [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Young boy who salvages coal from the slag heaps, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Young boys salvaging coal from the slag heaps, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salvaging coal from the slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boys who salvage coal from the slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man gathering good coal from the slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

General view from top of coal mine tressle, showing burning slag heaps and holes of slate, Maidsville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coal miners coming from work. Slag heaps burning nearby. Maidsville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Coke ovens and burning slag heaps make heavy impenetrable smoke over whole town, day and night. Longacre, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro woman picking up coal from old slate heaps in mining community. The "Patch," Cassville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Upon the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds

The garbage heaps are shabby

He gathers up stray onions from the plate and heaps them on the meat and presses them in with the spatula

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ancient heaps

Heaps of Hebrews

Heaps of Hebrews

Expressions using "heaps": heaps better ♦ heaps of ♦ heaps of money ♦ heaps of time ♦ heaps of times ♦ in heaps. Additional references.

Ending with "heaps": dust-heaps, slag-heaps, spoil-heaps.

Albanian

pirg (aggregation, bank, clamp, cumulus, drift, heap, heaps of, huddle, hump, jumble, mountain, pile, stack), mal (fell, heap, heaps of, mountain, pile), kapicë (collection, crowd, heaps of). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сума (amount, count, figure, heaps of, number, power, quantum, sum, tot, total), маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes). (various references)

Chinese 

� � (Bing, heap, PILE, Piled, Piles, stack, stacks). (various references)

Czech

hromada penìž (heaps of money), spousta (crowd, heap, heaps of, host, legion, load, lots, pack, Peck, plenty, spate, stack, volume), kvanta (heaps of, oodles). (various references)

Danish

sugemundstykket samler den hakkelse op,som er aflaesset i bunker (dumped onto heaps, the suction spout picks up the silage), paafyldning med eksisterende afgravningsmasser (redeposition, replacement, repositioning of existing spoil heaps). (various references)

Dutch

terugstorten (repay), de teelaarde dient over de hele oppervlakte van de grondwerken tussen de bermen te worden verwijderd en in afzonderlijke depots opgeslagen (the topsoil should be removed over the width of the earthworks between the slope stakes and stockpiled in separate heaps), de aanzuigmond neemt het op hopen gestorte hakselgewas op (dumped onto heaps, the suction spout picks up the silage). (various references)

Finnish

monen monta kertaa (heaps of times, over and over again), kasoittain (heaps of ., in heaps). (various references)

French

monceaux (heaps of), mise en remblai des terres extraites (repositioning of existing spoil heaps), masses (heaps of), la tuyauterie d'aspiration ramasse le fourrage haché qui a été déversé en tas (dumped onto heaps), la terre végétale devrait être déblayée sur toute la largeur du terrassement entre les pieds de talus et mise en dépôt en tas séparés (the topsoil should be removed over the width of the earthworks between the slope stakes and stockpiled in separate heaps). (various references)

German

häuft (cumulates, heapes). (various references)

Greek 

πλήθοσ (a lot of, army, battalion, bevy, crowd, host, huddle, large number of, lots, multitude, plenty of, ruck, shoal, swarm, throng, troop). (various references)

Hungarian

halom valamibõl (heaps of), rengeteg (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, bags of, heaps of, lashings, loads of, lots of, no end of, oodles, scores, slathers, stacks of, vast, whacking-great), rakás (batch, charging, clump, conglomerate, heap, heaps of, lump, pack, parcel, passel, pile, stack, tuck). (various references)

Italian

spostamento di cumuli di scorie esistenti (redeposition, replacement, repositioning of existing spoil heaps), si dovrebbe asportare il terreno vegetale su tutta la larghezza dello sbancamento tra le scarpate e depositarlo in mucchi separati (the topsoil should be removed over the width of the earthworks between the slope stakes and stockpiled in separate heaps), la tubazione di aspirazione raccoglie il foraggio trinciato,versato in mucchi (dumped onto heaps, the suction spout picks up the silage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

累累たる (in heaps), 累累 (in heaps), 累々 (in heaps). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

るいるいたる (in heaps), るいるい (in heaps). (various references)

Korean 

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

Norwegian

massevis. (various references)

Pig Latin

eapshay.(various references)

Portuguese

bolada (haul, heaps of money, jackpot, kick, loss, stake), a tubagem de aspiração recolhe a forragem triturada que foi despejada aos molhos (dumped onto heaps, the suction spout picks up the silage), a terra vegetal deve ser decapada em toda a extensão da terraplenagem entre os pés de talude e colocada em depósito separado (the topsoil should be removed over the width of the earthworks between the slope stakes and stockpiled in separate heaps). (various references)

Romanian

ghiotura. (various references)

Russian 

уйма (heaps of, oodles, scad, scads), масса (army, array, bulk, congeries, crowd, handful, heap, 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

meallanach (heaps or, knobby; abounding in lumps). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gomile (heaps of, loads of, piles). (various references)

Spanish

muchísimo (a great deal, awfully, heaps of, lot, oodles, very badly, very much, very much indeed). (various references)

Swedish

högar, mycket (a lot of, far, greatly, jolly, loads, lot, major, mighty, most, much, not half, overmuch, quite, so, very, very much). (various references)

Turkish

yığın halinde (in heaps), uzun süre (ages, donkey's years, heaps of time, long, long term, long time), sayısız defa (heaps of times), küme küme (in groups, in heaps, in piles, tufted, tufty), defalarca (again and again, always, fast, for the nth time, for the umpteenth time, heaps of times, numbers of times, over and over, repeatedly, scores of times, time after time, time and again, times without numbers, tons of times), bir sürü (a great number of, heap, heaps of, loads of, quiverful, tons of, waggonload), öbek öbek (heaps of, in groups, in heaps, tufty), çok zaman (heaps of time), çok kez (heaps of times), çok daha iyi (all the better, head and shoulders above, heaps better, streets ahead of), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping), çoğu zaman (heaps of times). (various references)

Ukrainian

набагато (lot, out and away, tenfold), дуже (anxiously, awfully, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, jolly, mightily, mighty, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, precious, purely, real, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, very much, violently, well, widely). (various references)

strues. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "heaps": cheaps, dustheaps, overheaps, scrapheaps, upheaps. (additional references)

Words containing "heaps": cheapskate, cheapskates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Heaps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehap, ehas, ehipa, haep, haups, heape, heapes, heas, heasy, heeps, Hepa, hepap, hepat, heps, herps, heup, hijas, Huapi, phaeopus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ephas, phase, shape.

-1 letter: apes, apse, epha, haes, haps, hasp, heap, pase, pash, peas, pehs, shea, spae.

-2 letters: ape, ash, asp, hae, hap, has, hep, hes, pah, pas, pea, peh, pes, sae, sap, sea, sha, she, spa.

-3 letters: ae, ah, as, eh, es, ha, he, pa, pe, sh.

+1 letter: alephs, chapes, cheaps, ephahs, hasped, pashed, pashes, phages, phased, phases, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaped, shapen, shaper, shapes, sherpa, spahee, spathe.

+2 letters: apaches, apheses, aphesis, aphides, chapels, cheapos, daphnes, diphase, eparchs, hampers, hapaxes, hapless, happens, haptens, harpers, harpies, hepcats, heptads, inphase, pakehas, parches, patches, peaches, peahens, peakish, pechans, perhaps, phaseal, phrased, phrases, plashed, plasher, plashes, poaches, prewash, pshawed, reshape, rhaphes, saphead, saphena, schappe, seraphs, shakeup, shapely, shapers, shapeup, sharped, sharpen, sharper, sharpie, sherpas, shoepac, spahees, spathed, spathes, spheral, teashop, tephras, threaps, upheaps.