heap
/hiːp/ noun B2- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation. · a heap of earth; a heap of stones
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- Memory that is dynamically allocated. · You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
- A dilapidated place or vehicle. · My first car was an old heap.
- A lot, a large amount. · Thanks a heap!
Plural heaps
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.
The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teeth.
The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and left to himself the smallest possible morsel.
There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.
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