Word Finder - heap

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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

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A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

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a heap of earth or stones

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A great number or large quantity of things.

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A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

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Memory that is dynamically allocated.

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You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

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A dilapidated place or vehicle.

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My first car was an old heap.

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A lot, a large amount

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Thanks a heap!

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To pile in a heap.

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He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

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To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

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To supply in great quantity.

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They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

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(representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive) Very.

She wilted to a heap and fell to the floor.

Jule had moved and collapsed in a heap a few feet away.

Sitting silent and motionless on a heap of straw against the wall, Pierre sometimes opened and sometimes closed his eyes.

Given what he's hearing and seeing now, it makes a heap of sense.

The cardboard boxes can be recycled or added to your compost heap.

She lowered it to the ground, dropping it in a heap.

He dropped her finally, and she landed in a heap.

Sasha.s guard fell quickly, and Jade hacked at the Ancient with all his fury until Sasha lay in a bloodied heap.

From the start of your organic garden, begin a compost heap.

I feel like I'm the scrap heap at 41.

Belfair watched, a sneering smile painted on her beautiful face, revenge was hers, as Jership the Terrible crashed in a bloody heap on the rocks below.

He was sure by now it was a brown tangle, ready for the trash heap.

Geomorphology is concerned, however, in the suggestions which have been made as to the cause of the distribution of heap and hollow in the larger features of the crust.

In building up the heap a number of narrow vertical passages are left to afford a draught for the fire.

The meaning of the name may be "the stone heap"; but it is not necessarily a Hebrew word.

The liquid litharge when allowed to cool solidifies into a hard stone-like mass, which, however, when left to itself, soon crumbles up into a heap of resplendent dark yellow scales known as "flake litharge."

It is well, therefore, to burn the tops of the plants in the fall, rather than to plough them under or to throw them on the compost heap.

Nekhtharheb built the temple of Behbt, now a ruinous heap of immense blocks of granite.

In the present day the old city has almost entirely disappeared, and its site is marked only by a heap of ruins; but in remote antiquity Ajodhya was one of the largest and most magnificent of Indian cities.

The washed-out calcium carbonate, which always contains much calcium hydrate and 2 or 3% of soda in various forms, usually goes back to the black-ash furnaces, but it cannot be always used up in this way, and what remains is thrown upon a heap outside the works.

These lots are put in a heap, and an outsider is called in who throws one lot or kaivel upon each heap of fish.

Each fisherman then finds his kaivel, and the heap on which it lies is his.

Crag, a heap or barrow - Crag Mawr, Trichrug.

The web arrangement consists of a series the high over-feedboard, and the taking-off apparatus is automatic but on a different plan from that of the ordinary Wharfedale, the sheets being carried over tapes with the freshly-printed side uppermost, thus preventing smearing; they are then carried on to the heap or pile by the frame or long arms placed at the end of the machine.

A wooden frame-work often surrounds the heap of tiles to prevent them being scattered by the waves.

To the primitive nomadic Semite the presence of the divinity was indicated by springs, shady trees, remarkable rocks and other landmarks; and from this earliest conception grew the theory that a numen might be induced to take up an abode in an artificial heap of stones, or a pillar set upright for the purpose.

The place is now a desolate heap of ruins, with remains of its walls and fragments of granite pillars.

Until 1820 it was subject to Bokhara, but in that year Mahmud Khan besieged it for four months, took it by storm and left it a heap of ruins.

Thus at the end of the 5th century the Roman empire was nothing but a heap of ruins, and fidelity to the empire was now only maintained by the Catholic Church; she alone The clergy survived, as rich, as much honored as ever, and more and the powerful, owing to the disappearance of the imperial barbarofficials for whom she had found substitutes, and the tans.

In iron-smelting the ore is laid in a heap upon the fuel (charcoal) filling up the hearth, and is gradually brought to the metallic state by the reducing action of the carbon monoxide formed at the tuyere.

Together we might peruse some of the more notable entries submitted to that inane contest in case a gem lays molding in the rubble heap of stupid begging missives from fantasying idiots.

The vampire landed in a heap at his feet, whimpering.

The tree deposited Deidre and Toby in a heap, and Toby sprung up, pleased with himself.  Katie looked at the tree in uneasy mistrust.  The trees of her world were alive, but this was something else.

Layers of comfrey can be placed on the compost heap from time to time to act as a compost accelerant.

And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap.

Rev Dr. Nicholas Heap, catholic chaplain to the college, accompanied the pupils to the ceremony.

Here the gleam of the miner's lamp outshines the little coltsfoot that grows tenaciously on the spoil heap.

Before they knew it there was an almighty crash, and the lot of them lay in a heap on the pavement.

This means both the heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap.

Within 48 hours, the printing presses of the newspaper lay in a twisted, tangled heap, destroyed by anti-tank explosives.

I'd sell the yellow one first if someone really wanted it and didn't want the rusty heap to go with it.

For Sale imogen heap gig tickets A pair of tickets for the Imogen heap gig tickets A pair of tickets for the Imogen Heap gig at the Junction this Sunday night £ 10 each!

Dump of iron-rich material - a small heap of low grade iron ores, including a few nodules of coal Measure ironstone.

Scrap Heap Challenge Build a tank transporter using household junk to transport one, two or three model tanks.

All the known deposits in the county were visited, sampled and tested for their reaction to our heap leach process.

When drawn from the heap the boy was chewing a mouthful of popcorn and both his hands were full of it.

The men who carved the spoons were not the landed gentry, and what ever Sweet sayings include " A Heap of Love " .

The sections created by the quarrying enabled us to inspect and record the stratigraphy of the heap.

A classic punk band who made at least three classic singles and a heap of good punk toons.

The pixel bestiary commences an instinctive dance to the throb and pulse of the quivering heap as a state of wild transfiguration is achieved.