Heap can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| heap - fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes" | ||
| heap - bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him" | ||
| heap - arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" | ||
Noun |
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| heap - A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. | ||
| heap - A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. | ||
| heap - 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. | ||
| heap - A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children. |
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| 1. | verb | Heap the platter with potatoes. | |
| 2. | verb | Heap firewood around the fireplace. | |
| 3. | noun | Fan letters lay in a heap on the desk. | |
| 4. | noun | A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes. | |
| 5. | noun | Put the plan on the scrap heap. | |
| 6. | noun | The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap. | |
| 7. | noun | She left the old newspapers lying in a heap. | |
| 8. | noun | She fell in a heap to the floor. | |
| 9. | noun | Get rid of that heap of old newspapers. | |
| 10. | noun | You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap. | |
| 11. | noun | The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs. | |
| 12. | noun | Thanks a heap. | |
| 13. | noun | The people living in that village habitually carry together several heaps of nuts, each heap being of the size of a net that is formed by two people's four hands. | |
| 14. | noun | It's important to get the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio right in a compost heap. | |
| 15. | noun | Tom's compost heap got so hot that it spontaneously combusted. | |
| 16. | noun | Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut. | |
| 17. | noun | "I do not like patchwork," said Anne dolefully, hunting out her workbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and white diamonds with a sigh. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Heap the platter with potatoes. |
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| Heap firewood around the fireplace. |
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| noun | |
| Fan letters lay in a heap on the desk. | |
| A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes. | |
| Put the plan on the scrap heap. | |
| The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap. | |
| She left the old newspapers lying in a heap. | |
| She fell in a heap to the floor. | |
| Get rid of that heap of old newspapers. | |
| You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap. | |
| The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs. | |
| Thanks a heap. | |
| The people living in that village habitually carry together several heaps of nuts, each heap being of the size of a net that is formed by two people's four hands. | |
| It's important to get the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio right in a compost heap. | |
| Tom's compost heap got so hot that it spontaneously combusted. | |
| Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut. | |
| "I do not like patchwork," said Anne dolefully, hunting out her workbasket and sitting down before a little heap of red and white diamonds with a sigh. | |