Heap

Definition

heap /hi:p/ n ၁။ အပံု။ a heap of books/ sand/ rubbish ❍ The building was reduced to a heap of rubble. ❍ ( fig ) She collapsed on the floor in a heap. သူ ၾကမ္းေပၚပံုလဲသြားသည္။ See also SCRAP HEAP ၂။ heaps [pl] ~ s ( of sth ) ( infml ) အပံုႀကီး။ အားႀကီး။ အမ်ားႀကီး။ ေတာင္ပံုရာပံု။ There's no hurry—we 've heaps of time. ❍ I've got heaps to tell you. ၃။ ( infml joc ) ကားအိုကားစုတ္။ v ၁။ ~ sth (up) ပံုသည္။ စုပံုသည္။ heap (up) stones to form a dam ❍ ( fig ) heap up riches ❍ a heaped spoonful of flour. ၂။ ~ sth on sb/ sth; ~ sth with sth ပံုထည့္သည္။ heap food on one's plate/ heap one's plate with food ❍ ( fig ) heap praises/ insults on sb. အလြန္အမင္း ခ်ီးက်ဴး၊ ေစာ္ကားသည္။ ❏ heaps better, more, older, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) အမ်ားႀကီးေကာင္းသည္။ တစ္ပံုႀကီးရိွသည္။ Do have a second helping—there's heaps more. ❍ He looks heaps better than when I last saw him.

Examples

1. A rubbish heap
2. [heap of] : The bomb had reduced the building to a heap of rubble.
3. [be in a heap] : His clothes were in a crumpled heap on the floor.
4. [in heaps] : The magazines were stacked in heaps on the table.