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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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troop
English
Etymology
Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe (back-formation of troupeau, diminutive of Medieval Latin troppus "flock") and Middle French trouppe (from Old French trope (“band, company, troop”)), both of Germanic origin from Frankish *thorp (“assembly, gathering”), from Proto-Germanic *þurp? (“village, land, estate”), from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“dwelling, settlement”). Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /t?u?p/
- (US) IPA(key): /t?up/
- Rhymes: -u?p
- Homophone: troupe
Noun
troop (plural troops)
- (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
- (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Coxe to this entry?)
- (Scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
- Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920) Aids To Scoutmastership?[1], page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
- (collective) A group of baboons.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- (mycology) Mushrooms that are in a close group but not close enough to be called a cluster.
Derived terms
- troop carrier
- trooper
- troop horse
- troopship
- troop train
Translations
Verb
troop (third-person singular simple present troops, present participle trooping, simple past and past participle trooped)
- To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
- To march on; to go forward in haste.
- To move or march as if in a crowd.
Derived terms
- troop the colour (British, military)
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
References
- “troop” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “troop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Porto, Proto, porto, porto-, proot, proto, proto-, tropo, tropo-
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
troop f (plural tropen, diminutive troopje n)
- (music, literature, linguistics) trope
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