Heap vs Together - What's the difference?
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A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
* Francis Bacon
* W. Black
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
* Dryden
A great number or large quantity of things.
* Bishop Burnet
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=May 9
, author=Jonathan Wilson
, title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao
, work=the Guardian
To pile in a heap.
To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
To supply in great quantity.
At the same time, in the same place; in close association.
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, title= Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
* {{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by=(Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, isbn=1163911380, publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location= London
, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker, page= 63
, passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere' þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge ' togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
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, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
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Heap is a related term of together.
As a noun heap
is heap.As an adverb together is
at the same time, in the same place; in close association.As an adjective together is
(colloquial) well organized, well developed.heap
English
(wikipedia heap)Noun
(en noun)- a heap of vassals and slaves
- He had heaps of friends.
- a heap of earth or stones
- Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
- a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
- I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(heap)- He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
- News of that vanished Arabian,
- A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
- They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
Derived terms
* heap upAnagrams
* * * ----together
English
(wikipedia together)Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}