Heaps vs Reaps - What's the difference?

heaps | reaps |

As a noun heaps

is .

As a verb reaps is

(reap).

heaps

English

Noun

(head)

A large amount.

* 2005 , Lesley Brown (translator), 245e:

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)

(heap)

Adverb

(-)

(colloquial) Very much, a lot

I love him heaps .

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reaps

English

Verb

(head)

(reap)

Anagrams

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reap

English

Verb

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

* Bible, Leviticus

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.

To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.

to reap a benefit from exertions

* Milton

Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?

* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7

For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7

(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.

Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.

(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* reaper * reap what one sows *

Noun

(en noun)

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.