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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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tangle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæ?.??l/
- Rhymes: -æ???l
Etymology 1
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þ?ngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
Verb
tangle (third-person singular simple present tangles, present participle tangling, simple past and past participle tangled)
- (intransitive) to become mixed together or intertwined
- (intransitive) to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight
- (transitive) to mix together or intertwine
- (transitive) to catch and hold; to ensnare.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple
- When my simple weakness strays, / Tangled in forbidden ways.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple
Synonyms
- (to become mixed together or intertwined): dishevel, tousle
- (to enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight): argue, conflict, dispute, fight
- (to mix together or intertwine): entangle, knot, mat, snarl
- (to catch and hold): entrap
Antonyms
- (to mix together or intertwine): untangle, unsnarl
Derived terms
- betangle
- entangle
Translations
Noun
tangle (plural tangles)
- A tangled twisted mass.
- A complicated or confused state or condition.
- An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
- (mathematics) A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
- A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
Synonyms
- (tangled twisted mass): knot, mess, snarl
- (complicated or confused state or condition): maze, snarl
- (argument, conflict, dispute, or fight): argument, conflict, dispute, fight
Derived terms
- tanglefish (Syngnathus acus)
- tanglesome
Translations
Etymology 2
Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish tang or Swedish tång, from Old Norse þongull, þang. See also Norwegian tongul, Faroese tongul, Icelandic þöngull.
Noun
tangle (countable and uncountable, plural tangles)
- Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 10:
- Than if with thee the roaring wells / Should gulf him fathom-deep in brine; / And hands so often clasped in mine, / Should toss with tangle and with shells.
- 1917, Kenneth Macleod (editor) "The Road to the Isles", in Songs of the Hebrides:
- You've never smelled the tangle o' the Isles.
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 10:
- (in the plural) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
- (Scotland) Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
Hyponyms
- kombu
Further reading
- tangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tangle at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- gelant, langet, netlag
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