heaps

/hiหps/

IPA: /HH IY1 P S/

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

    โ€œa heap of earth or stonesโ€

  3. 3

    A great number or large quantity of things.

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    Memory that is dynamically allocated.

    โ€œYou should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.โ€

  6. 6

    A dilapidated place or vehicle.

    โ€œMy first car was an old heap.โ€

  7. 7

    A lot, a large amount

    โ€œThanks a heap!โ€

verb
  1. 1

    To pile in a heap.

    โ€œHe heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.โ€

  2. 2

    To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

  3. 3

    To supply in great quantity.

    โ€œThey heaped praise upon their newest hero.โ€

adverb
  1. 1

    Very much, a lot

    โ€œI love him heaps.โ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heap, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heaps