Heads vs Heaps - What's the difference?
heads | heaps |
(nautical) That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
The side of a coin that bears the picture of the head of state or similar
abbreviation for headphones.
(Irish, legal) Draft scheme of a before it is formally introduced to a parliament
* 2000s "
* 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "
(head)
(slang) High-grade marijuana.
A large amount.
* 2005 , Lesley Brown (translator), 245e:
(heap)
(colloquial) Very much, a lot
As nouns the difference between heads and heaps
is that heads is plural of lang=en while heaps is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between heads and heaps
is that heads is third-person singular of head while heaps is third-person singular of heap.As an interjection heads
is a shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads.As an adverb heaps is
very much, a lot.heads
English
Etymology 1
Plural of head.Synonyms
* (warning) heads up, fore, timberNoun
(head) (p)- Heads , I win.
- Pass me the heads , I wanna listen.
How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast:
- Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.
Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012:
- The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.
Antonyms
* (side of coin ): tailsDerived terms
* heads of agreementEtymology 2
Verb
(head)Etymology 3
head (from the notion that it gives a head high) (possibly either genitive or plural).Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l)Coordinate terms
* (l), (l), (l) * (l), (l)Anagrams
*heaps
English
Noun
(head)- And heaps of objections, all of them involving countless difficulties, are going to face anyone who says either that being is some two things or that it is only one.
Verb
(head)Adverb
(-)- I love him heaps .