Definition of "heap" in English

noun

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

2. 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

3. A great number or large quantity of things.

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

5. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.

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

6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.

   • My first car was an old heap.

7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount

   • Thanks a heap!

verb

1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.

   • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

   • They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

adverb

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