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Heaps

noun
1.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"
adverb
1.
Very much.


Heap

noun
1.
A collection of objects laid on top of each other.  Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile.
2.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"
3.
A car that is old and unreliable.  Synonyms: bus, jalopy.
verb
(past & past part. heaped; pres. part. heaping)
1.
Bestow in large quantities.  "She heaped scorn upon him"
2.
Arrange in stacks.  Synonyms: pile, stack.  "Stack your books up on the shelves"
3.
Fill to overflow.



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"Heaps" Quotes from Famous Books



... its dragon's mouth; by its side the bust of a man, surmounted by a helmet, battlemented like the walls of a feudal castle; there, again, new monsters devouring each other, statues with broken limbs, disorderly heaps of huge balls, lonely fortresses with loopholes, ruined towers and bridges. All this scattered and intermixed with shapes changing incessantly like the dreams of delirium. And the chief attraction is that nothing here is the result of art, everything is the ...
— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky
... often had been at Round Hill when chasing squirrels or rabbits through forbidden forests. Already his historical interest was shaping his life. A tutor coming-by chance, let us hope—to his room remonstrated with him upon the heaps of ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... of the bunch was La Veta, and the presiding genius was Nora O'Neal, the lady manager. Many an R. & W. excursionist reading this story will recall her smile, her great gray eyes, her heaps of dark brown hair, and the mountain trout that ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman
... forgot the horse, he forgot his own bruises, in the growing interest of this encounter. There were fewer of them than there had been—he supposed the others must have hid—the heap of fern for the night fire was not so high. By the flint heaps should have sat Wau—but then he remembered he had killed Wau. Suddenly brought back to this familiar scene, the gorge and the bears and Eudena seemed things remote, ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells
... not clean white all through. There are yellow streaks somewhere in him ... I've given a good deal of thought to this courage business, for I haven't got a great deal of it myself. Not like Peter, I mean. I've got heaps of soft places in me. I'm afraid of being drowned for one thing, or of getting my eyes shot out. Ivery's afraid of bombs—at any rate he's afraid of bombs in a big city. I once read a book which talked about a thing called agoraphobia. Perhaps it's that ... Now if we know ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan


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