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  1. noun A group of things placed or thrown, one on top of the other: a heap of dirty rags lying in the corner.
  2. noun Informal A great deal; a lot. Often used in the plural: We have heaps of homework tonight.
  3. noun Slang An old or run-down car.
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  • It was still a bone-smashing thirty feet to the mill floor, but Kurtz had jumped above the first pile of limerock he had reached, and the heap was at least fifteen feet high. —  Dan Simmons - Hardcase
  • Top of the heap was the incredible "four hand massage" where Anna and Tom took us to a beautiful example of Shanghai's many massage parlours for Christmas. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Convincingly different from the heap is the new HKC S658 LCD monitor. —  CyberTheater
  • At the bottom of the heap is the Celeron, a one-star chip. —  Extremetech
  • In actuality, the key lookup to a heap is about 20-30\% less expensive than a key lookup to a clustered index, not anywhere close to the 4: 1 LIO ratio. —  SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web
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pile ·  mound ·  bundle ·  bit ·  lump ·  mass ·  handful ·  patch ·  fragment ·  quantity ·  bag ·  collection

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heap:   heaps ·  heaping ·  heaped
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hēap.

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  1. from Middle English heep, a heap, crowd, multitude, from Anglo-Saxon heáp, a band, troop, crowd, multitude (of persons), rarely a pile (of things), = Old Saxon hōp = OFries. hāp = Dutch hoop = Middle Low German hōp, Low German hoop, hope, also hupe, hüpe = Old High German houf and hūfo, Middle High German houf, houfe, and hūf, hūfe, German haufe = Icelandic hōpr = Swedish hop = Danish hob (the vowel in the Scandinavian words being conformed to that of the Low German), a troop, crowd, multitude. Cf. Old Bulgarian kupŭ, Russian Polish kupa, Lithuanian kaupas, a crowd, heap (Slav. and Low German p do not reg. correspond). Doublet hope, in the phrase forlorn hope: see forlorn.
  2. from Middle English hepen, from Anglo-Saxon heápian (= Dutch hoopen = Old High German houfōn, Middle High German houfen, German häufen = Swedish hopa = Danish (op-)hobe), heap, from heáp, a heap: see heap, n.
 

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