Heap (noun)
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
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”
Heap (noun)
A great number or large quantity of things.
Heap (noun)
A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
Heap (noun)
Memory that is dynamically allocated.
“You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.”
Heap (noun)
A dilapidated place or vehicle.
“My first car was an old heap.”
Heap (noun)
A lot, a large amount
“Thanks a heap!”
Heap (verb)
To pile in a heap.
“He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.”
Heap (verb)
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
Heap (verb)
To supply in great quantity.
“They heaped praise upon their newest hero.”
Pile (noun)
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
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.”
Pile (noun)
A mass formed in layers.
“a pile of shot”
Pile (noun)
A funeral pile; a pyre.
Pile (noun)
A large building, or mass of buildings.
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.
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.
Pile (noun)
An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
Pile (noun)
The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
Pile (noun)
A list or league
Pile (noun)
A dart; an arrow.
Pile (noun)
The head of an arrow or spear.
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.
Pile (noun)
One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
Pile (noun)
A hemorrhoid.
Pile (noun)
Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
Pile (noun)
The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
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.”
Pile (verb)
To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
“We piled the camel with our loads.”
Pile (verb)
To add something to a great number.
Pile (verb)
(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
Pile (verb)
To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
Pile (verb)
To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
Pile (verb)
To give a pile to; to make shaggy.