Word Finder - heaps

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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

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A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

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a heap of earth or stones

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A great number or large quantity of things.

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A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

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Memory that is dynamically allocated.

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You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

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A dilapidated place or vehicle.

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My first car was an old heap.

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A lot, a large amount

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Thanks a heap!

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To pile in a heap.

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He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

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To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

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To supply in great quantity.

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They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

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Very much, a lot

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I love him heaps.

Have manure put up in heaps and mixed with earth."

The spoil heaps are generally large and is a rough indication of the age of the sett.

Only crude brick ruins and rubbish heaps remain on the site, but a few relics conveyed to Alexandria and Europe in the Roman age have come down to our day, notably the inscribed statue of a priest of Neith who was high in favour with Psammetichus III., Cambyses and Darius.

The city is also one of the filthiest in the East, as there are no means of drainage or sewerage, and garbage of every description lies in heaps in the open streets.

His book on Materialism and Empiric Criticism (1909) heaps abuse on idealistic philosophers and religious teachers of all schools and creeds.

In the mercury experiment the sounding rod was sealed into the dust-tube, which was exhausted of air, and contained only some mercury and some quartz dust to give the heaps.

But keeping r/X small we may as before form stationary waves, and it is evident that the series of fundamental and overtones will be just as with the air in pipes, and we shall have the same three types - fixed at one end, free at both ends, fixed at both ends - with fundamental frequencies respectively 41, p ' 21 V p, and I velocity in rod =velocity in air X distance between dust heaps.

The huts of this last settlement appear to have had cattle stalls between them, the droppings and litter forming heaps at the lake bottom.

It is prepared (where wood is plentiful) by stacking the wood in heaps, which are covered with earth or with brushwood and turf, and then burning the heap slowly in a limited supply of air.

In the former case the seaweed is burnt in large heaps, care being taken that too high a temperature is not reached, for if the ash be allowed to fuse much iodine is lost by volatilization.

Lha-tho means " heaps of stones," and therefore appears to be a translation of Tsih-shih, " heapy stones," the country mentioned in connexion with the foundation of a state by Fanni Tu-bat.

Leaves collected in the autumn and stored in pits or heaps, and covered with a layer of soil, make beautiful leaf-mould at the end of about twelve months, if frequently drenched with water or rain during this period.

Heaps of stones answer very well for stops in the conductor, particularly immediately below the points of junction with the feeders.

But these collections are merely heaps of historical material, good and bad; the documents therein were not examined and they are now quite superseded.

From these heaps it is collected into larger ones, where it drains further, and becomes more purified.

The composition introduced Carlyle to the " Dryasdust " rubbish heaps of which he here and ever afterwards bitterly complained.

This " alkali-waste," also called tank-waste or vatwaste, was thrown into heaps where the calcium sulphide was gradually acted upon by the moisture and the oxygen of the air.

The process adopted for the Canadian ores, which are poor in copper and nickel, consists in a preliminary roasting in heaps and smelting in a blast furnace in order to obtain a matte, which is then further smelted with a siliceous flux for a rich matte.

The process is effected either in heaps, stalls, shaft furnaces, reverberatory furnaces or muffle furnaces.

This consists in stacking the broken ore in heaps and adding a mixture of sodium sulphate and ferric chloride in the proportions necessary for the entire conversion of the iron into ferric sulphate.

The heaps are moistened with ferric chloride solution, and the reaction is maintained by the liquid percolating through the heap. The liquid is run off at the base of the heaps into the precipitating tanks, where the copper is thrown down by means of metallic iron.

The ferrous chloride formed at the same time is converted into ferric chloride which can be used to moisten the heaps.

BjdrkS ("the isle of birches"), by foreign authors called Birka, was a kind of capital where the king lived occasionally at least; history speaks of its relations with Dorestad in the Netherlands, and the extensive refuse heaps of the old city, as well as the numerous sepulchral monuments, show that the population must have been large.

This fungus finds conditions suitable for growth when the potatoes are stored in a damp condition; rotting from this cause rarely occurs when they are dried before being placed in heaps.

Many forms in rivers, soil, manure heaps, &c., are capable of bringing about this change to ammonium carbonate, and much of the loss of volatile ammonia on farms is preventible if the facts are apprehended.

It had long been known that under certain conditions large quantities of nitrate (saltpetre) are formed on exposed heaps of manure, &c., and it was supposed that direct oxidation of the ammonia, facilitated by the presence of porous bodies, brought this to pass.

Many of them are mere heaps of sand and stone; others consist of huge masses of quartz.

It is manufactured by piling pyrites in heaps and exposing to atmospheric oxidation, the ferrous sulphate thus formed being dissolved in water, and the solution run into tanks, where any sulphuric acid which may be formed is decomposed by adding scrap iron.

Guanaco also have favourite localities in which to die, as appears from the great heaps of their bones found in particular spots.

Heaps of cast-iron can be seen already upon many of the large farms. Of course a great many extra parts are bought to take the place of those which break most frequently, and some men are always kept at work repairing machines in the field.

A little of it is used for fuel for the engines and for bedding the stock; but the bulk of it is dragged away from the threshing machine by machinery, and left lying in great heaps until an opportunity is afforded for burning it up. This is usually done immediately before the ploughing in the autumn.

These teleutospores remain inactive on the straw until spring, when they germinate in manure heaps or on moist ground and produce minute sporidia, which are conveyed by air currents to the alternate host, in this case a barberry.

The heaps of debris which cover so many acres near Belgrade, on the Kopaonik foothills and in the Toplitsa valley bear witness to the importance of this industry in the past.

It has heaps, but no hills; bushes, but no trees, unless indeed three or four tamarisks of aspiring height deserve the name; many old ruins and vestiges of civilization, but few monuments or relics of antiquity.

The mek, promising compliance, invited Ismail and his chief officers to a feast in his house, around which he had piled heaps of straw.

Pontodrilus, seeks an unusual environment, and is found in heaps of sea-weed cast up by the sea.

In the spring freshets it is a magnificent stream, but in summer its volume greatly shrinks, and it is normally a broad, shallow, sluggish, stream, flowing through interlacing channels among the sand-bars it heaps athwart its course.

In Hellenic times Soli had little political importance, though it stood a five months' siege from the Persians soon after 50o B.C.; its copper mines, however, were famous, and have left copious slag heaps and traces of small scattered settlements.

In the old copper-smelting district of Arabia Petraea, clay blast-pipes dating back to the earlier dynasties of ancient Egypt have been found buried in slag heaps; and in India the native smiths and iron-workers continue to use furnaces of similar types.

The towering medieval cathedrals were in fact heaps of stone without any significant tensile stresses.

It is freshly crushed to release over 78 minerals and trace elements to remineralise soil and compost heaps.

I snapped up pretty cheaply and I gave the old gal some TLC and she's repaying me back with heaps of enjoyment.

The slag heaps or pit mounds of closed mines have been put to many new uses.

Not a lot to see - some old walls; numerous shallow pits; spoil heaps.

Physical evidence for ancient metallurgy existed in the form of large slag heaps but there was no contemporary mining.

Millions are killed off-screen, and there are heaps of skulls, but there isn't exactly a war in The Killing Fields.

Heaps of love, sweetheart, I feel awfully sappy to-day - it makes a big lump come in my throat.

We now faced one of my favorite off-road sections, this being the fast meandering track through the mining spoil heaps.

These consist of heaps of loose soil, usually sufficient in volume to fill a 5 liter bucket.

Despite its impressive age it is still vivacious, easy to drink and with heaps of Dundee cake.