Packet vs Heap - What's the difference?

Packet is a related term of heap.

As nouns the difference between packet and heap

is that packet is a small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits while heap is heap.

As a verb packet

is to make up into a packet or bundle.

packet

English

Alternative forms

* pacquet (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.

(lb) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel ().

*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet , the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

(lb) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.

*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.

(lb) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks ().

(lb) A plastic bag.

*2012' August 6, Wendy Knowler], ''[http://www.iol.co.za/blogs/wendy-knowler-s-consumer-watch-1.1608/plastic-packets-who-bags-the-profits-1.1356896 Plastic ' packets : who bags the profits?

Verb

(en verb)

To make up into a packet or bundle.

To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

* Ford

Her husband was packeted to France.

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.

* 2007 , Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, ?Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace

Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting —tend to be of limited duration

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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.

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, 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.}}

Synonyms

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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

Anagrams

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