a great deal:‘How do you like Maggie?’ ‘I like you heaps better!’
არსებითი სახელი
Universal
1an untidy collection of objects placed haphazardly on top of each other:a disordered heap of boxesher clothes lay in a heap on the floor
an amount of a particular loose substance:a heap of gravel
2 (a heap of/heaps of) informal a large amount or number of:we have heaps of room
3 informal an untidy or dilapidated place or vehicle:they climbed back in the heap and headed home
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Universal
put (objects or a loose substance) in a heap:she heaped logs on the fireheaped up in one corner was a pile of junk
(heap something with) load something copiously with:he heaped his plate with rice
(heap something on/upon) bestow praise, abuse, or criticism liberally on:they once heaped praise on her
(as adjective heaped) chiefly British (of a spoon or other container) with the contents piled above the brim or edge:a heaped teaspoon of sugar
[no object] form a heap:clouds heaped higher in the west
at the top (or bottom) of the heap
(of a person) at the highest (or lowest) point of a society or organization:she had come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heapthose with grand hereditary titles remain at the top of the heap
be struck all of a heap
informal be extremely disconcerted:those who are struck all of a heap when faced with a bill
heap coals of fire on someone's head
British go out of one’s way to cause someone remorse:she did not want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she came home
[with biblical allusion to Rom. 12:20]
in a heap
with the body completely limp:he landed in a heap at the bottom of the stairs
