heap

== English == === 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)). === Pronunciation === enPR: hēp, IPA(key): /hiːp/ (Ireland, dated) enPR: hāp, IPA(key): /heːp/ Rhymes: -iːp === Noun === heap (plural heaps) 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 great number or large quantity of things. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:lot ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Sranan Tongo: ipi ==== Translations ==== === Verb === heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped) (transitive) To pile in a heap. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. (transitive) To supply in great quantity. ==== Synonyms ==== (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === heap (not comparable) (possibly offensive) very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans === Anagrams === HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *haup. Cognate with Old Frisian hāp, Old Saxon hōp, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xæ͜ɑːp/, [hæ͜ɑːp] === Noun === hēap m group c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle" The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle heap ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== hēapmǣlum ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: hepe, heep, hep, hapeEnglish: heapYola: heep == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English heap. === Noun === heap m or f (plural heaps) (computing) heap (tree-based data structure) == West Frisian == === Etymology === From Old Frisian hāp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”). === Noun === heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke) heap, pile mass, gang, horde ==== Further reading ==== “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011