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Huddle vs Heap - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between huddle and heap

is that huddle is to do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together) while heap is to supply in great quantity.

As nouns the difference between huddle and heap

is that huddle is a dense and disorderly crowd while heap is a crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

As verbs the difference between huddle and heap

is that huddle is to crowd together as when distressed or in fear while heap is to pile in a heap.

huddle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a dense and disorderly crowd
  • (American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.

    • Verb

    (huddl)
  • To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
    • During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.
  • To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
  • To get together and discuss.
  • * 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
    • George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.
  • (American football) To form a huddle.
  • To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
  • * (John Locke)
    • Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.
  • To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).
  • * J. H. Newman
    • Huddle up a peace.
  • * (John Dryden)
    • Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.

    heap

    English

    (wikipedia heap)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • a heap of vassals and slaves
  • * W. Black
    • He had heaps of friends.
  • A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
    • a heap of earth or stones
  • * Dryden
    • Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
  • A great number or large quantity of things.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson
    • I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
  • (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 citation , page= , passage=Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap , and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.}}

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    Verb

    (heap)
  • To pile in a heap.
    • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
  • To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, scene II, verses 40-42
    • Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
    News of that vanished Arabian,
    A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
  • To supply in great quantity.
    • They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

    Derived terms

    * heap up

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