From Middle English hepe, from Old English hēap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian kaũpas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan 𐬐𐬂𐬟𐬀 (kåfa)).
heap (plural heaps)
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy VVarre. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC, page 104:A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences
1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
- 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
1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian[1]: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 great number or large quantity of things.
1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England:a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
My first car was an old heap.
1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5: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.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
Thanks a heap!
crowd
- Bulgarian: тълпа (bg) f (tǎlpa)
- Dutch: mensenmassa (nl) m or f
- Finnish: joukko (fi), väkijoukko (fi)
- Galician: multitude (gl) f, moitedume f, chea (gl) f, corxa f
- German: Menschenmenge (de) f, Masse (de) f
- Italian: folla (it) f, massa (it) f, moltitudine (it) f
- Occitan: molon (oc) m, molonada (oc) f, multitud (oc) f, fola (oc) f, mond (oc) m
- Portuguese: multidão (pt) f
- Quechua: qisa
- Uyghur: غۇژمەك (ghuzhmek)
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pile
- Arabic:
- Egyptian Arabic: كومة f (kōma)
- Armenian: կույտ (hy) (kuyt), զանգված (hy) (zangvac)
- Azerbaijani: qalaq, yığın, topa
- Basque: pilo
- Belarusian: ку́ча f (kúča), ку́па f (kúpa)
- Bulgarian: куп (bg) m (kup), купчина (bg) f (kupčina)
- Chechen: гӏама (ğama)
- Cherokee: ᎤᎪᏗᏗ (ugodidi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 堆 (zh) (duī)
- Danish: stak c
- Dutch: hoop (nl) m, berg (nl) m
- Esperanto: stako
- Finnish: kasa (fi), läjä (fi), keko (fi)
- French: tas (fr) m, pile (fr) f, monceau (fr) m
- Galician: pía (gl) f, conxerie f, morea (gl) f, rebullón m, moutillón m, cómaro m, toutelo m, cemba (gl) f, cotarelo m, alarve m
- Georgian: გროვა (grova)
- German: Haufen (de) m, Haufe (de) m
- Greek: σωρός (el) m (sorós), στοίβα (el) f (stoíva)
- Ancient: σωρός m (sōrós), σώρευμα n (sṓreuma), θίς m (thís)
- Hindi: ढेर (hi) m (ḍher)
- Hungarian: halom (hu)
- Ingrian: mytty, koko, ropja, runni
- Irish: dumha m, carnán m
- Italian: pila (it), cumulo (it), catasta (it) f, mucchio (it) m
- Japanese: 重ね (かさね, kasane), 塚 (ja) (つか, tsuka), 堆積 (ja) (たいせき, taiseki), 積み重ね (ja) (つみかさね, tsumikasane), 山 (ja) (やま, yama)
- Khmer: គំនរ (km) (kumnɔɔ), ពំនូក (km) (pumnuuk), រនះ (km) (rɔneah)
- Korean: 더미 (ko) (deomi), 무더기 (ko) (mudeogi)
- Latgalian: guba, gobona, kryva, skaudze, grāda
- Latin: struēs f, acervus (la) m, cumulus m
- Latvian: kaudze, grēda, čupa
- Lithuanian: krūvà f, kaũpas m
- Macedonian: куп m (kup)
- Maori: purawhetū, taupū, kōputu
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: molon (oc) m, pièla f
- Ottoman Turkish: ییغین (yığın)
- Persian: کپه (fa) (koppe), توده (fa) (tude), کوت (fa) (kut)
- Polish: sterta (pl) f, kupa (pl) f
- Portuguese: pilha (pt) f, monte (pt) m
- Quechua: qutu
- Romanian: groapă (ro) f
- Russian: ку́ча (ru) f (kúča), гру́да (ru) f (grúda), во́рох (ru) m (vórox), ки́па (ru) f (kípa)
- Sanskrit: निचय (sa) m (nicaya), राशि (sa) m or f (rāśi)
- Spanish: pila (es) f, montón (es) m, cúmulo (es) m
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: öbek (tr)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎎𐎕 (qmṣ)
- Ukrainian: ку́па (uk) f (kúpa), ку́ча f (kúča)
- Uyghur: غارام (gharam), دۈۋە (düwe)
- Vietnamese: đống (vi), gò (vi)
- Walloon: moncea (wa) m, hopea (wa) m
- Welsh: pentwr (cy)
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great number or large quantity of things
- Bulgarian: маса (bg) f (masa)
- Dutch: berg (nl) m, massa (nl) f, massa (nl) m or f
- Finnish: joukko (fi), kasa (fi), läjä (fi)
- French: tas (fr) m
- Galician: pía (gl) f, parga f, conxerie f, acervo (gl) m, morea (gl) f, rebullón m, monte (gl) m
- Italian: moltitudine (it) f, massa (it) f, marea (it) f
- Occitan: molon (oc) m
- Portuguese: monte (pt) m
- Russian: ку́ча (ru) f (kúča)
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memory that is dynamically allocated
colloquial: dilapidated place or vehicle
Translations to be checked
heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)
- (transitive) To pile in a heap.
He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act I, scene II, verses 40-42:Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
News of that vanished Arabian,
A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
to supply in great quantity
Translations to be checked
heap (not comparable)
- (possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans
1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English, page 417:We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes, page 175:Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
From Proto-Germanic *haupaz.
Cognate with Old Frisian hāp, Old Saxon hōp, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.
hēap m
- group
- heap
Declension of heap (strong a-stem)
Unadapted borrowing from English heap.
heap m or f (plural heaps)
- (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)
From Old Frisian hāp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).
heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)
- heap, pile
- mass, gang, horde
- “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011