heap
/hiːp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.59 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
noun
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
noun
Memory that is dynamically allocated.
Example Sentences
- "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"
Etymology
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)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hepe, hēap, *haup, *haupaz, *koupos