heap

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A group of things placed or thrown, one on top of the other: a heap of dirty rags lying in the corner.
2. n. Informal A great deal; a lot. Often used in the plural: We have heaps of homework tonight.
3. n. Slang An old or run-down car.
4. v. To put or throw in a pile.
5. v. To fill completely or to overflowing: heap a plate with vegetables.
6. v. To bestow in abundance or lavishly: heaped praise on the rescuers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A great number of persons or animals; a troop; a crowd; a multitude.
2. n. A great number of things; a large accumulation, stock, or store of any kind; a large quantity; a great deal: as, a heap of money; the frost destroyed a heap of fruit.
3. n. A collection of things laid in a body so as to form an elevation; a pile or raised mass: as, a heap of earth or stones. In some places a heap of limestone was formerly 4¾ cubic yards.
4. n. In mathematics, a collection of objects all related in the same way one to another.
5. To cast, lay, or gather in a heap; pile; accumulate; amass: as, to heap stones or ore: often with up or on: as, to heap up treasures; to heap on wood or coal.
6. To round or form into a heap, as in measuring; give or fill with overflowing measure.
7. To bestow a heap or large quantity upon.

Wiktionary

1. n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
2. n. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
3. n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones.
4. n. computing A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. v. transitive To pile in a heap.
6. v. transitive To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
7. v. transitive To supply in great quantity.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Now Low or Humorous A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
2. n. Now Low or Humorous A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
3. n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
4. v. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up.
5. v. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; ; -- often with up; ; or with on.
6. v. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
2. n. a car that is old and unreliable
3. v. fill to overflow
4. v. bestow in large quantities
5. n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
6. v. arrange in stacks