The difference between Amass and Heap

When used as nouns, amass means a mass, whereas heap means a crowd.

When used as verbs, amass means to collect into a mass or heap, whereas heap means to pile in a heap.


Heap is also adverb with the meaning: very.

check bellow for the other definitions of Amass and Heap

  1. Amass as a verb (transitive):

    To collect into a mass or heap

  2. Amass as a verb (transitive):

    to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.

    Examples:

    "to amass a treasure or a fortune"

    "to amass words or phrases"

  1. Amass as a noun (obsolete):

    A mass; a heap.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sir H. Wotton"

  1. Heap as a noun:

    A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

  2. Heap as a noun:

    A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

    Examples:

    "a heap of earth or stones"

  3. Heap as a noun:

    A great number or large quantity of things.

  4. Heap as a noun (computing):

    A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

  5. Heap as a noun (computing):

    Memory that is dynamically allocated.

    Examples:

    "You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow."

  6. Heap as a noun (colloquial):

    A dilapidated place or vehicle.

    Examples:

    "My first car was an old heap."

  7. Heap as a noun (colloquial):

    A lot, a large amount

    Examples:

    "Thanks a heap!"

  1. Heap as a verb (transitive):

    To pile in a heap.

    Examples:

    "He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding."

  2. Heap as a verb (transitive):

    To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

  3. Heap as a verb (transitive):

    To supply in great quantity.

    Examples:

    "They heaped praise upon their newest hero."

  1. Heap as an adverb (representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans; may be offensive):

    Very.