Heap
noun
A large, messy pile of things.
She had a heap of laundry to do.
Often appears as...
- heap of clothes
- heap of rubbish
noun
A lot of something.
I've got heaps of homework.
Often appears as...
- heaps of fun
- heaps of time
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Informal, Exaggerating
Colloquial
noun
An old car that is in poor condition.
He drives an old rusted heap.
Often appears as...
- rusted heap
- old heap
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Informal, Disapproving
noun
A data structure in computer science.
The memory manager allocates from either a stack or a heap.
Often appears as...
- memory heap
- binary heap
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Technical
noun
A large, messy pile of things.
She had a heap of laundry to do.
Often appears as...
- heap of clothes
- heap of rubbish
noun
A lot of something.
I've got heaps of homework.
Often appears as...
- heaps of fun
- heaps of time
Usage tips
Informal, Exaggerating
Colloquial
noun
An old car that is in poor condition.
He drives an old rusted heap.
Often appears as...
- rusted heap
- old heap
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
A data structure in computer science.
The memory manager allocates from either a stack or a heap.
Often appears as...
- memory heap
- binary heap
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Visual Imagery
Imagine a disorganized pile to grasp 'heap' as a physical collection of items.
After the party, there was a heap of dishes in the sink.
Pro Tip 2/2Size Implication
Use 'heap' to emphasize that there's a large quantity of something.
We have a heap of decorations to put up for the festival.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Imagery
Imagine a disorganized pile to grasp 'heap' as a physical collection of items.
After the party, there was a heap of dishes in the sink.
Pro Tip 2/2Size Implication
Use 'heap' to emphasize that there's a large quantity of something.
We have a heap of decorations to put up for the festival.
Pro Tip 1/2Visual Imagery
Imagine a disorganized pile to grasp 'heap' as a physical collection of items.
After the party, there was a heap of dishes in the sink.
Pro Tip 2/2Size Implication
Use 'heap' to emphasize that there's a large quantity of something.
We have a heap of decorations to put up for the festival.
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Your elusive creative...
I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction. And people would say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to have any success? Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams
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The hidden worlds within...
but when birds came and ate those heaps of dead bugs, the DDT accumulated in their bodies. It worked its way up the food chain and was absorbed by apex predator birds in such high concentrations that it thinned their eggs so that they couldn't support the nesting bird's weight.
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The legend of Annapurna,...
Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children while their own stomachs rumbled. With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world. To His shock and awe,
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A radical plan to end...
don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from,
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How did clouds get their...
cumulus, heap or pile, and stratus, layer or sheet. But that wasn't the clever part. Clouds are constantly changing, merging, rising, falling, and spreading throughout the atmosphere, rarely maintaining the same shapes for more than a few minutes.
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What Is This Thing? PIPE...
that rare mammal that doesn't have any that kind of limits our culinary choices doesn't well not if you're angling if you're a Pangolin there's nothing like a big heaping mound of live bugs termites the Pangolin uses its powerful claws to
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What would happen if...
and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards. But in this post-human world, “local” has a new meaning. Our cities are full of imported plants, which now run wild across their adopted homes.
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Underground Labyrinth Of...
home not much to see on the surface just a scattering of holes and heaps of soil but down below they dig a labyrinth an underground bunker that's been key to their success three stories deep extending over 60
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The Boltzmann brain...
Every one universe produced by random fluctuations has equivalent odds to heaps upon heaps of insta-brains. So by this reasoning, it seems extremely more likely
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Context determines...
the dogs to dice all from cultural projectiles also some of those heaps are fatal some of them we dock dive and do
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Your elusive creative...
I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction. And people would say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to have any success? Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams
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The hidden worlds within...
but when birds came and ate those heaps of dead bugs, the DDT accumulated in their bodies. It worked its way up the food chain and was absorbed by apex predator birds in such high concentrations that it thinned their eggs so that they couldn't support the nesting bird's weight.
Video examples
The legend of Annapurna,...
Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children while their own stomachs rumbled. With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world. To His shock and awe,
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A radical plan to end...
don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from,
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How did clouds get their...
cumulus, heap or pile, and stratus, layer or sheet. But that wasn't the clever part. Clouds are constantly changing, merging, rising, falling, and spreading throughout the atmosphere, rarely maintaining the same shapes for more than a few minutes.
Video examples
What Is This Thing? PIPE...
that rare mammal that doesn't have any that kind of limits our culinary choices doesn't well not if you're angling if you're a Pangolin there's nothing like a big heaping mound of live bugs termites the Pangolin uses its powerful claws to
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What would happen if...
and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards. But in this post-human world, “local” has a new meaning. Our cities are full of imported plants, which now run wild across their adopted homes.
Video examples
Underground Labyrinth Of...
home not much to see on the surface just a scattering of holes and heaps of soil but down below they dig a labyrinth an underground bunker that's been key to their success three stories deep extending over 60
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The Boltzmann brain...
Every one universe produced by random fluctuations has equivalent odds to heaps upon heaps of insta-brains. So by this reasoning, it seems extremely more likely
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Context determines...
the dogs to dice all from cultural projectiles also some of those heaps are fatal some of them we dock dive and do
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Alan Greenspan
American Economist
I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.
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Amber Rudd
British Politician
For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap, those who have been abused by the very people who should have looked after them, is, as home secretary, my job, but I also see it is as my moral duty.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.
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Jill Scott
American Musician
I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.
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Octavia Spencer
American Actress
Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.
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Mark Schlereth
We've seen safeties, especially middle of the field safeties, we've seen those guys get paid. Like every one of those guys has gone out on the market and gotten a heap of money.
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Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
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Mary Ellen Chase
American Educator
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Alan Greenspan
American Economist
I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.
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Amber Rudd
British Politician
For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap, those who have been abused by the very people who should have looked after them, is, as home secretary, my job, but I also see it is as my moral duty.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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Rebecca Solnit
American Writer
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.
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Jill Scott
American Musician
I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.
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Octavia Spencer
American Actress
Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.
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Mark Schlereth
We've seen safeties, especially middle of the field safeties, we've seen those guys get paid. Like every one of those guys has gone out on the market and gotten a heap of money.
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Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
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Mary Ellen Chase
American Educator
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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