bunch vs heap

bunch

noun
  • A considerable amount. 

  • A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together. 

  • A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. 

  • An informal body of friends. 

  • A group of logs tied together for skidding. 

  • An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock. 

  • The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle. 

  • The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race. 

  • An unmentioned amount; a number. 

  • An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added. 

verb
  • To be gathered together in folds 

  • To form a bunch. 

  • To protrude or swell 

  • To gather fabric into folds. 

  • To gather into a bunch. 

heap

noun
  • A lot, a large amount 

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

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

  • Memory that is dynamically allocated. 

  • A dilapidated place or vehicle. 

  • A great number or large quantity of things. 

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

adv
  • very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans 

verb
  • To pile in a heap. 

  • To supply in great quantity. 

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

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