| NOUN | group | heap, pile, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
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| quantity | heap, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent | |
| artifact | heap, bus, jalopy | a car that is old and unreliable | |
| VERB | possession | heap | bestow in large quantities |
| contact | heap, stack, pile | arrange in stacks | |
| change | heap | fill to overflow |
| Sounds | hhiy'p | |
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| Rhymes | asleep ... weep: 22 rhymes with iyp... | |
| Meaning | A collection of objects laid on top of each other. | |
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| Synonyms | pile, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus | |
| Narrower | compost heap, compost pile | A heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost |
| dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill | A heap of dung or refuse | |
| pyre, funeral pyre | wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite | |
| scrapheap | pile of discarded metal | |
| shock | A pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry | |
| slagheap | pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | |
| stack | An orderly pile | |
| stockpile | A storage pile accumulated for future use | |
| woodpile | A pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel | |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage | Several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
| Spanish | acumulación, aglomerado, cúmulo, montaña, montículo, montón, pila | |
| Catalan | apilament, muntanya, munt, pila, pilot | |
| Verbs | heap | arrange in stacks |
| Meaning | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. | |
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| Synonyms | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | |
| Narrower | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent | An overwhelming number or amount |
| haymow | A mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | |
| Broader | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
| Spanish | avalancha, barbaridad, bestialidad, burrada, cantidad, cúmulo, enormidad, fajo, lote, mogollón, montaña, montón, multitud, passel, pila | |
| Catalan | apilament, apilotament, castell, cúmul, estiba, feix, lot, manyoc, muntanya, munt, passel, pila, pilot, quantitat, tou | |
| Verbs | heap | fill to overflow |
| heap | bestow in large quantities | |
| Meaning | A car that is old and unreliable. | |
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| Synonyms | bus, jalopy | |
| Broader | car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar | A motor vehicle with four wheels |
| dysphemism | An offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one | |
| Spanish | armatoste, bote, cacharro, cafetera, changarro, heap, mamotreto | |
| Catalan | cafetera, trasto | |
| Meaning | bestow in large quantities. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something; Somebody ----s something on somebody | |
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| Broader | give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody |
| Spanish | abrumar, atosigar, cargar | |
| Catalan | aclaparar, afeixugar, carregar | |
| Nouns | heap | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent |
| Meaning | Arrange in stacks. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Model | They heap the books into the box | |
| Example | "heap firewood around the fireplace" | |
| Synonyms | stack, pile | |
| Narrower | cord | stack in cords |
| rick | pile in ricks | |
| Broader | arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order |
| See also | heap up | arrange into piles or stacks |
| Spanish | acumular, amontonar, apilar, hacinar | |
| Catalan | acumular, agarberar, amuntegar, apilar, apilonar | |
| Nouns | heap | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
| Meaning | Fill to overflow. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They heap the cart with boxes | |
| Example | "heap the platter with potatoes" | |
| Broader | fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense |
| Spanish | colmar | |
| Catalan | curullar, omplir | |
| Nouns | heap | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent |
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