heap
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Is heap a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of heap?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
2. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.Examples: "You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow."
3. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.Examples: "My first car was an old heap."; "Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof."colloquial
4. (colloquial) A lot, a large amountExamples: "Thanks a heap!"; "[W]e went to the play, and Pen was struck all of a heap with Miss Fotheringay … And he’s fallen in love with her—and I’m blessed if he hasn’t proposed to her […]"colloquial
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.Examples: "He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding."Synonyms: amasstransitive
2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.Examples: "Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring News of that vanished Arabian, A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold."transitive
3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.Examples: "They heaped praise upon their newest hero."; "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 rail users."transitive
adv (English)
1. (possibly offensive) very or much; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native AmericansExamples: "Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway."; "We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth."; "Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick."not-comparableoffensivepossibly
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary