heap

About 4.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
2. noun A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

   a heap of earth; a heap of stones

3. noun A great number or large quantity of things.
4. noun A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. noun Memory that is dynamically allocated.

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

6. noun A dilapidated place or vehicle.

   My first car was an old heap.

7. noun A lot, a large amount.

   Thanks a heap!

8. verb To pile in a heap.

   He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

Similar words

pile lot muckle mickle great deal slew plenty wad mass sight

Often followed by

of on and in up is upon to at

Word family

heaped heaping heaps