heap

noun7

1. •
   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
2. •
   A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

   • A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences — 1622
3. •
   A great number or large quantity of things.

   • a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations — 1679
4. •
   (informal) A lot, a large amount.

   • Thanks a heap!
5. •
   (informal) A dilapidated place or vehicle.

   • My first car was an old heap.
6. •
   Memory that is dynamically allocated.

   • You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
7. •
   A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

verb3

1. •
   To pile in a heap.

   • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
2. •
   To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

   • Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring News of that vanished Arabian, A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold. — 1819
3. •
   To supply in great quantity.

   • They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

adverb1

1. •
   (offensive) very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

   • Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway. — 1895

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of high explosive armor-piercing.