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heaps   (TTS Sound)

The noun heaps has 1 sense

• tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings -- (a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers")

The noun heap has 3 senses

• pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus -- (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)


• batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money")


• bus, jalopy, heap -- (a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus")

The verb heap has 3 senses

• heap -- (bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him")


• stack, pile, heap -- (arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves")


• heap -- (fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes")

The adv heaps has 1 sense

• heaps -- (very much; "thanks heaps")