"heap" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

heap sustantivo

sustantivo + heap
Kolokacji: 20
compost heap • scrap heap • trash heap • slag heap • garbage heap • ...
adjetivo + heap
Kolokacji: 43
great heap • little heap • crumpled heap • small heap • untidy heap • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(2) crumpled, mangled
Kolokacji: 2
(4) whole, conical
Kolokacji: 2
(5) tangled, mere, unconscious
Kolokacji: 3
(6) bloody, broken, confused
Kolokacji: 3
(7) limp, tumbled, loose
Kolokacji: 3
1. limp heap = wiotka sterta limp heap
2. tumbled heap = zlecieć sterta tumbled heap
3. loose heap = luźna sterta loose heap
  • He lay on the floor in a loose heap, rolling willy-nilly with every roll of the Elsinore.
  • Pools of runoff water, which had carved ruts in loose heaps of material, rippled faintly at the bottoms of ditches and ravines.
  • A loose heap of rubble lay in the square at their feet and clouds of dust and mortar were failing around them.
  • Hugh lay on his bed in a loose heap, snoring at the ceiling.
  • Cameron raked on for half an hour, making loose heaps up the middle of the field.
  • But the lion collapsed in a loose, inert heap on top of Nefer.
  • Thus confronting the Unknown face-to-backside, he groped for footholds in the loose heap of broken stone and gradually worked his way downward.
  • "I come to have a word with you," he said, striding forward to the table, laying down his hat and the flowers, which tumbled apart and lay in a loose heap.
  • Retief pulled open the desk; a loose heap of unfamiliar papers lay there.
  • The rope lay in a loose heap under the shaft.
(8) old, dusty
Kolokacji: 2
(9) lifeless, motionless
Kolokacji: 2
(10) pathetic, pitiful, undignified
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + heap
Kolokacji: 8
with heaps • into a heap • in a heap • to a heap • on a heap • ...

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