A heap is many things put together in a messy pile. It usually looks big and not neat. You can see heaps of items like clothes or leaves.
There is a heap of clothes on the floor.
A heap of leaves covered the garden.
To heap means to put many things together in a pile or group. People heap things when they want to collect or store them in one place.
They heaped books on the table.
She heaped the soil into a pile.
Heap also means a large amount of something. We use it to talk about many things or a big quantity, often in informal speech.
I have a heap of homework to do.
She got a heap of questions from the class.
In computers, the heap is a part of memory where programs keep data when they need to use it later. It is different from the stack, another memory area.
The program stores data in the heap.
Memory leaks happen when objects remain in the heap.
To heap praise means to give someone or something a lot of good words. It is used when many positive things are said about a person or thing.
They heaped praise on the new teacher.
She heaped compliments on his work.
In some informal English, heap can be used like an adverb to mean ‘a lot’ or ‘very much’. It shows high degree or quantity in casual speech.
I like that car a heap.
He learned a heap in class today.
A heap can mean a pile of natural waste, like leaves or food scraps. Gardeners use these heaps to make compost that helps plants grow.
We put the leaves on the compost heap.
The garden has a heap of organic waste.
