OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14450

heap

/hiːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cúmulo • montón • pila
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
a heap of earth; a heap of stones
montículo
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 14451

heap

/hiːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amontonar
To pile in a heap.
He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
amontonar
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.
amontonar
To supply in great quantity.
Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on r…
They heaped praise upon their newest hero.