(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.
Mint
Definition:
(n.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.
(n.) A place where money is coined by public authority.
(n.) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
(v. t.) To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
(v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A matter of minutes after his appointment was announced on Thursday, the newly minted minister for Portsmouth was on his feet answering questions in the Commons.
(2) May hopes her fresh-minted “global Britain” will create a new paradigm in international trade.
(3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(4) But that’s just false , no matter how many uninformed newly-minted rape pundits claim otherwise.
(5) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(6) The Royal Mint said earlier this week that sales of its gold coins and bars had surged before the referendum.
(7) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(8) As well as a “bimetallic” construction similar to the existing £2 coin, the new £1 will feature new banknote-strength security pioneered at the Royal Mint’s headquarters in Llantrisant, South Wales.
(9) Using skills acquired in his first job with the accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and his second, buying and selling companies for JP Morgan, he minted a commercial model from the calm opulence of United's discreet Mayfair office that soon became the envy of the football world.
(10) This is an everyday tale of two freshly minted governments getting two very different treatments from the heart of Europe.
(11) The Royal Mint is constantly looking to the future, however, so, whilst the round £1 has served us well, it is time to turn our attention to the new £1 that in time will be used by millions of people in Britain and become equally well-recognised across the world.
(12) A newly minted drachma would be low enough to attract holidaymakers, but without the investment in new hotels, the industry could barely cope.
(13) The BRC will engage with both the government and the Royal Mint to support a smooth transition period."
(14) Demand for gold bullion has surged as people have snapped up coins and bars while the EU referendum result is too close to call, according to the Royal Mint.
(15) Britain’s Royal Mint produces coins on behalf of dozens of other countries’ governments.
(16) As a Muslim, she was concerned about the newly minted president-elect and his campaign promises that targeted Muslims, immigrants and women.
(17) Playing the California Clasico on Sunday, the Galaxy looked to be back on form after a hiccup in Montreal in midweek, where they had hauled themselves back from 2-0 down to salvage a draw, looking way out of sync playing a recently minted 3-5-2.
(18) Here at the Royal Mint, near Llantrisant to the west of Cardiff, production has been ramped up to full capacity.
(19) The 18th century minted the magazine, an elegant potpourri of stories and news, instruction and amusement.
(20) In a week that has seen the 17-year-old newly minted tech millionaire hit the headlines, give back-to-back interviews across the world, fly to America to appear on primetime TV shows and find time for a quick phone call to me from the back of a New York taxi, he still sounds sparky.