heap
Multiple Entries:heap Pelion
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
heap/hiːp/
▶noun
- 1 a mound or pile of a substance.
■ an untidy collection of objects piled up haphazardly.
- 2 informal a large amount or number: we have heaps of room.
- 3 informal an untidy or dilapidated place or vehicle.
■ load copiously with.
■ (as adj. heaped) Brit. (of a spoon) with the contents piled above the brim or edge.
– origin OE hēap (n.), hēapian (v.), of Gmc origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Pelion /ˈpiːlɪən/
▶noun (in phr. pile or heap Pelion on Ossa) literary add an extra difficulty to something which is already onerous.
– origin the name of a mountain in Greece; the giants of Greek mythology were said to have piled Mounts Olympus and Ossa on its summit in their attempt to reach heaven and destroy the gods.
'heap' also found in these Oxford entries:
accumulate
- ant heap
- bank
- bing
- clamp
- coacervate
- compost heap
- congeries
- congested
- construct
- cumulate
- cumulus
- dump
- dunghill
- exaggerate
- haycock
- hill
- horst
- imbroglio
- kitchen midden
- lathe
- midden
- monte
- mound
- Pelion
- pile
- pyramid
- pyre
- rake
- rickle
- ruck
- scrap heap
- shell heap
- slag heap
- sorosis
- sorus
- spillikin
