heap

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, great, large

▪ little, small

▪ crumpled

▪ ash (AmE, usually figurative), rubbish (BrE), scrap, slag, spoil (esp. BrE), trash (AmE)

▪

the ash heap of history

▪

colliery spoil heaps

▪ compost, manure (esp. BrE)

VERB + HEAP

▪ be piled in

▪

Papers were piled in great heaps on the desk.

▪ collapse in, fall down in, fall in (all figurative)

▪

He collapsed in an exhausted heap on the floor.

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the heap

▪

His clothes lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.

▪ on a/the heap, onto a/the heap

▪

Throw the potato peelings on the compost heap.

▪ heap of

▪

a great heap of stones

PHRASES

▪ the bottom of the heap, the top of the heap (figurative)

▪

These workers are at the bottom of the economic heap.

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verb

Heap is used with these nouns as the object: ↑misery, ↑praise, ↑scorn