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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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pool
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pu?l/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /pul/, [p?u?], [p?u??]
- Rhymes: -u?l
- Homophone: Poole
Etymology 1
From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English p?l (“pool”), from Proto-Germanic *p?laz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?los (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), Low German Pohl, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“bog, marsh, swamp, pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian ??????? (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).
Noun
pool (plural pools)
- A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water.
- the pools of Solomon
- A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- Ellipsis of swimming pool
- A supply of resources.
- (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- a pool of blood
- A localized glow of light.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (p?ru)
- ? Swedish: pool c
Translations
Verb
pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.
Etymology 2
From French poule (“collective stakes in a game”). The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner.
Noun
pool (plural pools)
- (games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- (sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs Chapter 23
- He plays pool at the billiard-houses, and may be seen engaged at cards and dominoes of forenoons.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs Chapter 23
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
- The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
- He put $10,000 into the pool.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- (rail transport) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- (law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pool (third-person singular simple present pools, present participle pooling, simple past and past participle pooled)
- (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
- 1920, Frank L. Packard, The White Moll Chapter 4
- “She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The idea struck me last night that if she and I should—er—pool our resources, we should not have to complain of the reward.”
“Oh, so youse wants to work wid her, eh?” sniffed Rhoda Gray. “So dat’s it, is it?”
- “She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The idea struck me last night that if she and I should—er—pool our resources, we should not have to complain of the reward.”
- 27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act
- Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
- 1920, Frank L. Packard, The White Moll Chapter 4
- (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Translations
Anagrams
- Loop, OOPL, Polo, loop, polo
Dutch
Etymology 1
From Latin polus, which itself is from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis”). Cognate with English pole.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pool
Noun
pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)
- magnetic pole (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
- electrical pole (e.g. of a battery)
- (figuratively) an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine
Derived terms
- noordpool, Noordpool
- zuidpool, Zuidpool
Etymology 2
From English pool.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pool
Noun
pool m (plural pools, diminutive pooltje n)
- a gambling venture such as a football pool
- the stake involved in such a venture
- an arrangement where people pool in money to share one resource such as a carpool
- (sports) pool
Derived terms
- banenpool
- arbeidspool
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch pool, from Old French poil, from Latin pilus (“hair”). Cognate with English pile
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pool
Noun
pool c (plural polen, diminutive pooltje n)
- the pile (upstanding usually fine hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting
Anagrams
- loop
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates include Finnish puoli (“half, side”), Mansi ???? (p?l, “half, side”), Hungarian fél (“half”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?o?l/
Noun
pool (genitive poole, partitive poolt)
- half
- side
Inflection
The nonstandard plural partitive poolesid is somewhat common in colloquial use.
Postposition
pool
- at, to, towards
Inflection
- allative: poole
- adessive: pool
- ablative: poolt
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?o?l?/
Noun
pool (genitive pooli, partitive pooli)
- bobbin, coil
Inflection
See also
- mähis
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pooli, from Proto-Uralic *pälä. Cognates with Finnish puoli and Estonian pool.
Noun
pool (genitive poolen, partitive poolt)
- half
Karao
Noun
pool
- large fire (which causes damage)
Sambali
Noun
pool
- fire
Spanish
Noun
pool m (plural pooles)
- pool (sport)
Swedish
Etymology
Since 1968; from English pool, related to Swedish pöl (“small water pool, usually on the road when it's raining”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu?l/
- Homophone: pol
- Rhymes: -u?l
Noun
pool c
- a swimming pool
Declension
Related terms
- bubbelpool
Anagrams
- loop
- polo
Yucatec Maya
Noun
pool m (plural pooles)
- head
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