Word Finder - heaping

definition

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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Containing a heap (of something). (Compare heaped.)

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a heaping big bowl of ice cream; a heaping bowl of rice

He poured a heaping bowl of Cheerios.

They also, by heaping up the water at the one end of the sea or the other, raise the level temporarily and locally to the extent of 4 to 8 ft.

She put a heaping plate in the oven and returned to the living room with cookies and milk for Darian.

They are depressions in the valleys, not due to local heaping up of detritus, but true rock-basins, often of great depth.

The crudest method of rendering oils from seeds, still practised in Central Africa, in Indo-China and on some of the South Sea Islands, consists in heaping up oleaginous fruits and allowing them to melt by the heat of the sun, when the exuding oil runs off and is collected.

The first woman who expressed olives packed in a sack by heaping stones on them may be considered as the forerunner of the inventors of all the presses that subsequently came into use.

He brought all the " observable things," which the eager collectors of the previous century had been heaping together regardless of order or system, into relation with the vertical relief and the horizontal forms of the earth's surface.

From the simplest plating of cheese, bread and fruit to heaping platters of heavily sauced meats, pastas and stews.

Use about one heaping teaspoon leaves or one bag of tea per cup.

Dry and curly hair needs to be maintained and well cared for to prevent a heaping mess!

It really doesn't matter where you're from because you will carry with you a heaping helping of pride for your homeland.

Before you load your plate with a heaping portion of high fiber foods, beware of side effects.

Instead, he grabbed a plate of Cynthia's scrambled eggs and bacon and hauled the heaping plate up to his room.

Elsewhere local surface currents are developed, either drifts due to the direct action of the winds, or streams produced by wind action heaping water up against the land; but these nowhere rise to the dignity of a distinct current system, although they are often sufficient to obliterate the feeble tidal action characteristic of the Mediterranean.

But, as was to be expected, their mysticism moves in that comparatively narrow round, and consists simply in the heaping up of these sensuous experiences.

But as things are the watersurface is broken by land, and the mean density of the substance of the land is 2 6 times as great as that of sea-water, so that the gravitational attraction of the land must necessarily cause a heaping up of the sea around the coasts, forming what has been called the continental wave, and leaving the sea-level lower in mid-ocean.

In the region of tropical hurricanes the navies, while in the Mediterranean and in the Indian Ocean converging wind system of a circular storm causes a heaping many soundings were made in connexion with submarine up of water capable of devastating the low coral islands of the cables to the East.

When a drift-current impinges directly upon a coast there is a heaping up of surface water, giving rise to a counter-current in the depths, which maintains the level, and this counter-current, although subject to deflection on account of the rotation of the earth, is deflected much less than a pure drift-current would be.

Its variations may be due equally to natural denudation of a stratum once of uniform depth, or to the artificial heaping up of a mound by later builders.