cram vs heap

cram

verb
  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. 

  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. 

  • To study hard; to swot. 

  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself. 

  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. 

noun
  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. 

  • Information hastily memorized. 

  • A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. 

  • The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). 

  • A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue. 

heap

verb
  • To pile in a heap. 

  • To supply in great quantity. 

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

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

  • A lot, a large amount 

  • 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 

How often have the words cram and heap occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )