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heap
English
Etymology
From Middle English heep, from Old English h?ap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian ka?pas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan ????????????????? (kåfa)).
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /hi?p/
- ((Ireland), dated) enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /he?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
heap (plural heaps)
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- a heap of vassals and slaves
- 1876, Anthony Trollope, s:Doctor Thorne
- He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
- 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
- a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
- 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Will o' the Mill
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
- 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
- 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:lot
Hyponyms
- compost heap
Derived terms
- heapful
- heapmeal
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ipi
Translations
Verb
heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)
- (transitive) To pile in a heap.
- (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
News of that vanished Arabian,
A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
- (transitive) To supply in great quantity.
Synonyms
- (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- heaped (adj), heaping (adj)
- heap up
- overheap
Translations
Adverb
heap (not comparable)
- (offensive, representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans) Very.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
- We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
- 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)
- Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
- 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)
Anagrams
- HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.
Cognate with Old Frisian h?p, Old Saxon h?p, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xæ???p/, [hæ???p]
Noun
h?ap m
- group
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"
- heap
Declension
Derived terms
- h?apm?lum
Descendants
- Middle English: heep
- English: heap
Portuguese
Etymology
From English heap
Noun
heap m or f (in variation) (plural heaps)
- (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).
Noun
heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)
- heap, pile
- mass, gang, horde
Further reading
- “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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aggregate
English
Etymology
From Latin aggreg?tus, perfect passive participle of aggreg? (“I flock together”), from ag- (combining form of ad (“to, toward”)) + greg? (“I flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious.
Pronunciation
- Noun and adjective
- enPR: ?'gr?g?t, IPA(key): /?æ?????t/
- Verb
- enPR: ?'gr?g?t, IPA(key): /?æ?????e?t/
Noun
aggregate (countable and uncountable, plural aggregates)
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- 1898, Arthur Berry, A Short History of Astronomy Chapter 12 - Herschel
- If the nebulosity were due to an aggregate of stars so far off as to be separately indistinguishable, then the central body would have to be a star of almost incomparably greater dimensions than an ordinary star; if, on the other hand, the central body were of dimensions comparable with those of an ordinary star, the nebulosity must be due to something other than a star cluster.
- 1898, Arthur Berry, A Short History of Astronomy Chapter 12 - Herschel
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- 1847, William Black, A Practical Treatise on Brewing : Calculating Lengths and Gravities
- This in the second boiling will be replaced by nearly an equal quantity of worts, of the same gravity as turned out of the copper, which, in making the calculation, is to be deducted from the aggregate of the second worts, and so on with a third wort if necessary.
- 1847, William Black, A Practical Treatise on Brewing : Calculating Lengths and Gravities
- (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
- (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores
- 12 December 2016, Associated Press, Brazil and Argentina reportedly to play friendly at MCG in 2017
- Brazil won the first series 2-0 on aggregate before Argentina got revenge in 2012 via a penalty shootout.
- 12 December 2016, Associated Press, Brazil and Argentina reportedly to play friendly at MCG in 2017
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers Chapter 21
- "Yes sair," returned the Frenchman, whose prominent eyes were watching the precarious footsteps of the beast he rode, as it picked its dangerous way among the roots of trees, holes, log bridges, and sloughs that formed the aggregate of the highway.
- 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers Chapter 21
- (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
Synonyms
- (mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars): cluster
- (attribute of the sentient being in Buddhism): skandha
Translations
Derived terms
- aggregational
- in aggregate
See also
- composite
- conglomerate
- twelve-tone technique
- serialism
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ?ISBN, Ch. 6.
Adjective
aggregate (comparative more aggregate, superlative most aggregate)
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War Chapter 33 The Northern Operations from January to April, 1901
- All over the country small British columns had been operating during these months--operations which were destined to increase in scope and energy as the cold weather drew in. The weekly tale of prisoners and captures, though small for any one column, gave the aggregate result of a considerable victory.
- 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War Chapter 33 The Northern Operations from January to April, 1901
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
Translations
Verb
aggregate (third-person singular simple present aggregates, present participle aggregating, simple past and past participle aggregated)
- (transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
- The aggregated soil.
- (archaic, transitive) To add or unite (e.g. a person), to an association.
- (transitive) To amount in the aggregate to.
- There are ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
Antonyms
- segregate
Translations
References
- aggregate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Verb
aggregate
- second-person plural present indicative of aggregare
- second-person plural imperative of aggregare
- feminine plural of aggregato
Latin
Verb
aggreg?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of aggreg?
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