Heap vs. Pile

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  • 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.

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