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heap

გამოთქმა: /hiːp/

ზმნისართი

Universal
  • 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 boxes her 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

ზმნა

Universal
  • put (objects or a loose substance) in a heap:she heaped logs on the fire heaped 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 heap those 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

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