Meaning of heap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of high explosive armor-piercing.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A surname.
3. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
4. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
5. A great number or large quantity of things.
6. A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
7. Memory that is dynamically allocated.
8. A dilapidated place or vehicle.
   colloquial
9. A lot, a large amount
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences”

“He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense”

“a heap of earth; a heap of stones”

“Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.”

“Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.”

“a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations”

“I have noticed a heap of things in my life.”

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

“My first car was an old heap.”

“Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.”

“Thanks a heap!”

“[W]e went to the play, and Pen was struck all of a heap with Miss Fotheringay … And he’s fallen in love with her—and I’m blessed if he hasn’t proposed to her […]”

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