Heap
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile.
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.
To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures.
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.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
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Heap Quotations
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
Pope John XXIII
You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.
Dave Winfield
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare
No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
James Cash Penney
Heap Translations
heap in Afrikaans is menigte, massa, stapel, skare, klomp
heap in Dutch is ophopen, opeenhopen, accumuleren
heap in Finnish is kasa
heap in Norwegian is haug
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