HEAP
\hˈiːp], \hˈiːp], \h_ˈiː_p]\
Definitions of HEAP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"
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a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"
By Princeton University
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a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"
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a collection of objects laid on top of each other
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fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
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A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
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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; as, a heap of earth or stones.
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To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
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To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; - usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.
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To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; - often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
By Oddity Software
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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
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A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
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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; as, a heap of earth or stones.
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To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
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To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; - usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.
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To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; - often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
By Noah Webster.
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A pile or collection of things thrown together; a quantity; accumulation; crowd.
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To form into a pile.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A pile or mass heaved or thrown together: a collection: (B.) a ruin.
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To throw in a heap or pile: to amass: to pile above the top:-pr.p. heaping; pa.p. heaped'.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A mass of things thrown into a pile; a collection; a crowd; a quantity.
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To throw or lay in a heap; to accumulate.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A pile or mass consisting of many single things; a collection, as of ruins.
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To throw or lay together single things in a mass or pile; to accumulate; to amass or lay up.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.