Heapest vs Cheapest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (heap)
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.
(cheap)
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As a verb heapest
is archaic second-person singular of heap.As an adjective cheapest is
superlative of cheap.heapest
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Verb
(head)heap
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(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
* * * ----cheapest
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Adjective
(head)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
