batch vs heap

batch

noun
  • A quantity of anything produced at one operation. 

  • A graduating class; school class. 

  • The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time. 

  • A set of data to be processed at one time. 

  • A bank; a sandbank. 

  • A bread roll. 

  • A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows. 

  • A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business. 

adj
  • Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting. 

verb
  • To aggregate things together into a batch. 

  • To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. 

  • To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process. 

heap

noun
  • A great number or large quantity of things. 

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

verb
  • To pile in a heap. 

  • To supply in great quantity. 

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

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

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