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Heap (noun)
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
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Heap (noun)
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
“a heap of earth or stones”
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Heap (noun)
A great number or large quantity of things.
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Heap (noun)
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
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Heap (noun)
Memory that is dynamically allocated.
“You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.”
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Heap (noun)
A dilapidated place or vehicle.
“My first car was an old heap.”
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Heap (noun)
A lot, a large amount
“Thanks a heap!”
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Heap (verb)
To pile in a heap.
“He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.”
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Heap (verb)
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
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Heap (verb)
To supply in great quantity.
“They heaped praise upon their newest hero.”
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Pile (noun)
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
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Pile (noun)
A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
“When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the “maybe” pile, and the annoying guy on the “no” pile.”
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Pile (noun)
A mass formed in layers.
“a pile of shot”
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Pile (noun)
A funeral pile; a pyre.
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Pile (noun)
A large building, or mass of buildings.
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Pile (noun)
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
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Pile (noun)
A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
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Pile (noun)
An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
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Pile (noun)
The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
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Pile (noun)
A list or league
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Pile (noun)
A dart; an arrow.
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Pile (noun)
The head of an arrow or spear.
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Pile (noun)
A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
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Pile (noun)
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
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Pile (noun)
A hemorrhoid.
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Pile (noun)
Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
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Pile (noun)
The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
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Pile (verb)
To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
“They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.”
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Pile (verb)
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
“We piled the camel with our loads.”
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Pile (verb)
To add something to a great number.
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Pile (verb)
(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
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Pile (verb)
To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
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Pile (verb)
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
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Pile (verb)
To give a pile to; to make shaggy.