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What's The Definition Of Heap?

\Heap\, n. [OE. heep, heap, heap, multitude, AS. he['a]p; akin to OS. h?p, D. hoop, OHG. houf, h?fo, G. haufe, haufen, Sw. hop, Dan. hob., Icel. h?pr troop, flock, Russ. kupa heap, crowd, Lith. kaupas. Cf. {Hope}, in Forlorn hope.] 1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons. [Now Low or Humorous] The wisdom of a heap of learned men. --Chaucer. A heap of vassals and slaves. --Bacon. He had heaps of friends. --W.Black. 2. A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. [Now Low or Humorous] A vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations. --Bp. Burnet. I have noticed a heap of things in my life. --R. L. Stevenson. 3. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation; as, a heap of earth or stones. Huge heaps of slain around the body rise. --Dryden.
\Heap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heaped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heaping}.] [AS. he['a]pian.] 1. To collect in great quantity; to amass; to lay up; to accumulate; -- usually with up; as, to heap up treasures. Though he heap up silver as the dust. --Job. xxvii. 16. 2. To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal. 3. To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.
heap[i] <= heap[2*i] and heap[i] <= heap[2*i+1] for all i,