(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.
Tip
Definition:
(n.) The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.
(n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
(n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
(n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
(n.) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
(v. t.) To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.
(v. t.) To strike slightly; to tap.
(v. t.) To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant.
(v. t.) To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
(v. i.) To fall on, or incline to, one side.
(n.) A light touch or blow; a tap.
(n.) A gift; a douceur; a fee.
(n.) A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
(2) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(3) The complication might have been prevented by measurements of U and I, reflecting changes in impedance or by measurements of catheter tip temperature (T).
(4) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
(5) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(6) Eight electrodes of different size and tip characteristics were evaluated at different temperatures and time settings, both in vitro and in vivo.
(7) Neither was the intra-VMH infusion of MA effective if: (i) the rats were not primed with estrogen; (ii) the tips of the cannulae were outside the VMH; or (iii) it was preceded by an intra-VMH infusion of the alpha 1b-antagonist, chloroethylclonidine (CEC).
(8) "We know that a country has tipped when local-to-local connections outnumber local to foreign," he added.
(9) An inner cannula containing PGE2 or PGF2alpha at its tip was inserted into the previously implanted outer cannula.
(10) The linear flow accelerator failed to prevent, but did delay, catheter tip recoil in proportion to the prolongation of contrast medium injection time.
(11) The inter-connecting linkage system develops postnatally, and the 'tip-linkages' are already found in one-week-old mice, suggesting that the critical organization of the micromechanics of the stereocilia matures rapidly during the postnatal period.
(12) A new simplified technique for evaluating the internal pudendal artery and the penile vessels is described using a new catheter configuration with a very short 90 degrees-angled tip.
(13) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
(14) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
(15) This study demonstrates the limitations of the Q-Tip test and reconfirms the need for more sensitive and specific urodynamic investigations of the incontinent woman.
(16) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(17) After 4 weeks of in vivo growth, extensive growth of arborizing ducts was apparent in recombinants composed of urogenital sinus mesenchyme and a single adult prostatic ductal tip.
(18) Conversely, serum starvation decreased TIP levels within 1 hr.
(19) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(20) One patient harbored a basilar trunk aneurysm, 1 an aneurysm of the proximal posterior cerebral artery, 3 an aneurysm of the superior cerebellar artery, and 10 an aneurysm at the basilar tip.