(n.) A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
(n.) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
(n.) A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones.
(v. t.) To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.
(v. t.) To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal.
(v. t.) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(3) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(4) Despite the praise and awards heaped on him Yunus has not become one of those leaders who checks out how important you are before deciding how much of his time you are worth.
(5) Not to mention the files they may have already shredded.” One core problem is that too many expectations have been heaped on a trial that cannot bear them all.
(6) She responded with Mrs Schofield's GCSE , which heaped up all the grisly murders in Shakespeare.
(7) There's been so much abuse heaped upon these communities, and so much rightful anger at the people who stole their lands.
(8) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(9) Tayyab Mahmood Jafri, part of the large team of prosecution lawyers, heaped scorn on yet another discovery of explosives.
(10) In the 1980s she was near the bottom of the heap in popularity among US first ladies - coming 36th out of 37 in a 1993 opinion poll.
(11) The technology giant heaped pressure on its rivals with a cheaper iPad 2 priced at $399 (£254).
(12) Unless those at the bottom of the heap can represent themselves, and the inarticulate will not know how to woo judges, they will be outlaws.
(13) Gaddafi, as vigilant keeper of the flame, kept a weather eye open, heaping privileges on some and prestige on others in order to consolidate alliances and plaster over any cracks that threatened to appear.
(14) He went on to heap blame on Corrie for her own killing, arguing that, contrary to what "any reasonable person would have done", she "chose to put herself in danger" by trying to impede "a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity".
(15) The far rightwing La Gaceta on a front page editorial heaped insults on the politicians who had voted for the ban, singling out the man who is likely to become the next Catalan president as "a separatist who hates everything Spanish".
(16) After weeks of open criticism, Die Welt also heaped praise on the German coaching team’s tactical flexibility.
(17) Pseudopolyps which represent polypoid oedematous tags, regenerating mucosal islands between ulcerations or heaped-up granulation tissue covered by epithelium, are a common sequela of ulcerative colitis and may also occur secondary to granulomatous colitis.
(18) Yet the Welsh government is set on building more roads like the M4 extension that will bring more harmful pollution and more congestion.” Alan Heaps, who runs a woodwork business from his house on the A472, agreed that radical action was needed.
(19) In an attempt to reduce the numbers of this pathogen in this sewage end product, the survival of L. monocytogenes was monitored in a heap of sewage sludge cake stored for over 23 weeks on farm land.
(20) The millionaires boom offers little consolation to Africans at the bottom of the heap: South Africa remains one of the most unequal societies in the world.
Heep
Definition:
(n.) The hip of the dog-rose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remarkably, Fight the Power contains a sample of the English rock band Uriah Heep (3) .
(2) Some of the city’s best known modernist buildings date back to this period, including David Libeskind’s Conjunto Nacional , Franz Heep’s Edifício Itália , and Oscar’s Niemeyer’s iconic S-shaped Copan building .
(3) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
(4) In truth, I did not much care for Heep, finding him a deeply aspirant member of the lower orders, but I bore myself with the dignity expected of distressed gentlefolk and treated him with a patronising contempt disguised as good manners.
(5) It does have to be admitted that there is something irresistible about the delivery of a custard pie to a face, even when the victim is a confused octogenarian belatedly starting a new life as Uriah Heep.
(6) As for you, Heep, I shall visit you in prison to lecture you once more."
(7) The inclusion of a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number index in HEEP has led to the need for a special database designed to link substance names with their appropriate CAS chemical compound Registry Numbers.
(8) rarities or Uriah Heep bootlegs, because, hey, it’s all vinyl, huh, vinyl’s great, it’s what we do downtown.
(9) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
(10) "Why I have been investigating your business dealings with Mr Wickfield, Heep, and it seems you are a crook …" "So my father wasn't totally incompetent," cried Agnes.
(11) With Heep having finally been exposed as the crook I had always assumed his petit-bourgeois aspirations would lead him to be, I never enquired how someone as feckless as Mr Micawber should be such an astute accountant.
(12) It’s a treaty, he said, just that, and should not be viewed as a tablet brought down from on high with Australians behaving as Uriah Heeps grateful to be in the glow of American greatness.
(13) Just don't marry Uriah Heep now he's running your father's business."
(14) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
(15) And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."
(16) But I certainly don’t feel that I need to be Uriah Heep-ish about it in any way.
(17) It really isn’t lost on me what a privilege it is to be given a show like this,” this latterday Uriah Heep tells his audience, “and I will really do my best not to let any of you down.” The reviews suggest Corden’s passed this supposed trial-by-fire, but what’s interesting is the criteria applied.
(18) I did not hesitate to work still harder for Mr Micawber's release and the only break in my day was the invitation to take tea with an unattractive clerk by the name of Uriah Heep.