Heaps can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adverb.
Adverb |
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| heaps - very much; "thanks heaps" | ||
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. | adv. | Thanks heaps. | |
| 2. | adv. | She is heaps better today. | |
| 3. | noun | It was used for raking together heaps of money. | |
| 4. | noun | I feel heaps better after a sound sleep. | |
| 5. | noun | He made heaps of money by ripping off naive suckers. | |
| 6. | 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. | |
| 7. | noun | Tom's got heaps of friends. | |
| 8. | noun | Maria is sitting at her desk and translating a novel. She's surrounded by heaps of big dictionaries. Maria needs all of them as she is translating with an almost fanatic precision. | |
| 9. | noun | We will pester him with heaps of questions. | |
| 10. | noun | Tom took heaps of photos on his holiday. | |
| 11. | noun | Year after year they re-appeared; and it was known that underneath those fertile spots, heaps of men and horses lay buried, indiscriminately, enriching the ground. | |
| 12. | noun | Down at the base of the cliffs were heaps of surf-worn rocks or little sandy coves inlaid with pebbles as with ocean jewels. | |
| 13. | noun | There, torn from many a burning temple, lay / Troy's wealth; the tripods of the Gods were there, / piled in huge heaps, and raiment snatched away, / and golden bowls, and dames with streaming hair / and tender boys stand round, and tremble with despair. | |
| 14. | noun | I have heaps of work to do. | |
| 15. | noun | I’ve got heaps of homework due today but haven’t even touched anything yet. | |
| 16. | noun | And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted. | |
| 17. | noun | My friend spoke heaps without taking any break about himself. | |
| 18. | verb | Heap the platter with potatoes. | |
| 19. | verb | Heap firewood around the fireplace. |
| Sentence | |
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| adv. | |
| Thanks heaps. |
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| She is heaps better today. | |
| noun | |
| It was used for raking together heaps of money. | |
| I feel heaps better after a sound sleep. | |
| He made heaps of money by ripping off naive suckers. | |
| 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. | |
| Tom's got heaps of friends. | |
| Maria is sitting at her desk and translating a novel. She's surrounded by heaps of big dictionaries. Maria needs all of them as she is translating with an almost fanatic precision. | |
| We will pester him with heaps of questions. | |
| Tom took heaps of photos on his holiday. | |
| Year after year they re-appeared; and it was known that underneath those fertile spots, heaps of men and horses lay buried, indiscriminately, enriching the ground. | |
| Down at the base of the cliffs were heaps of surf-worn rocks or little sandy coves inlaid with pebbles as with ocean jewels. | |
| There, torn from many a burning temple, lay / Troy's wealth; the tripods of the Gods were there, / piled in huge heaps, and raiment snatched away, / and golden bowls, and dames with streaming hair / and tender boys stand round, and tremble with despair. | |
| I have heaps of work to do. | |
| I’ve got heaps of homework due today but haven’t even touched anything yet. | |
| And the Lord did according to the word of Moses: and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered them together into immense heaps, and the land was corrupted. | |
| My friend spoke heaps without taking any break about himself. | |
| verb | |
| Heap the platter with potatoes. |
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| Heap firewood around the fireplace. |
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