Healest vs Heapest - What's the difference?
healest | heapest |
(archaic) (heal)
To hide; conceal; keep secret.
To cover, as for protection.
To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
* Bible, Matthew viii. 8
To become better.
To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.
(obsolete) health
(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.
In archaic terms the difference between healest and heapest
is that healest is archaic second-person singular of heal while heapest is archaic second-person singular of heap.healest
English
Verb
(head)heal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) helen, hilen, from (etyl) . Related to (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) helen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- This bandage will heal your cut.
- Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed .
- Bandages allow cuts to heal .
- to heal dissensions
Synonyms
* (make better) cure, make whole * (become better) get better, recoverDerived terms
* healable * healand, Healand * healer * healthNoun
(-)- (Chaucer)
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbs ----heapest
English
Verb
(head)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.