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Definition of 'heave'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) heave
to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist:
to heave a heavy ax.

2.  heave
to throw, esp. to lift and throw with effort or force:
to heave a stone through a window.

3.  heave
Naut.

4.  heave
to move into a certain position or situation.

5.  heave
to utter laboriously or painfully:
to heave a sigh.

6.  heave
to cause to rise and fall with a swelling motion:
to heave one's chest.

7.  heave
to vomit; throw up.

8.  heave
to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.).

9. (v.i.) heave
to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements:
The ship heaved and rolled.

10.  heave
to breathe with effort; pant.

11.  heave
to vomit; retch.

12.  heave
to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge.

13.  heave
to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.

14.  heave
Naut.

15.  heave
to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation:
The ship hove into sight.

16.  heave
heave to,

17.  heave
to stop the headway of (a vessel), esp. by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails.

18.  heave
to come to a halt.

19. (n.) heave
an act or effort of heaving.

20.  heave
a throw, toss, or cast.

21.  heave
the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a geologic fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.

22.  heave
the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.

23.  heave
heaves, (used with a sing. v.)

Definition of 'heave'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) heave, heaving
an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
"the heaving of waves on a rough sea"

2. (noun) heave
(geology) a horizontal dislocation

3. (noun) heave, heaving
the act of lifting something with great effort

4. (noun) heave, retch
an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
"a bad case of the heaves"

5. (noun) lift, raise, heave
the act of raising something
"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

6. (verb) heave, heaving
throwing something heavy (with great effort)
"he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"

7. (verb) heave
utter a sound, as with obvious effort
"She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"

8. (verb) heave
throw with great effort

9. (verb) billow, surge, heave
rise and move, as in waves or billows
"The army surged forward"

10. (verb) heave, heave up, heft, heft up
lift or elevate

11. (verb) heave
move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
"The vessel hove into sight"

12. (verb) pant, puff, gasp, heave
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
"The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

13. (verb) heave, buckle, warp
bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
"The highway buckled during the heat wave"

14. (verb) gag, heave, retch
make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

Definition of 'heave'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) heave
an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy

2. (noun) heave
an upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like

3. (noun) heave
a horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode

4. (verb) heave
to cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land

5. (verb) heave
to throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log

6. (verb) heave
to force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead

7. (verb) heave
to raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh

8. (verb) heave
to cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom

9. (verb) heave
to be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound

10. (verb) heave
to rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle

11. (verb) heave
to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult

12. (verb) heave
to make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit

Translation of 'heave'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (try to) lift or to pull, with great effort They heaved with all their strength, but could not move the rock; They heaved the wardrobe up into the lorry.
Afrikaans: hys, optel	Arabic: يَرْفَع شيئا ثَقيلا	Bulgarian: повдигам (се)
Brazilian: puxar	Czech: zvednout (se)	German: (hoch-)heben
Danish: løfte; hive	Greek: σηκώνω κτ. με προσπάθεια	Spanish: tirar; levantar; arrastra
Estonian: tõstma, hiivama	Farsi: به زور بلند كردن	Finnish: nostaa
French: (sou)lever, tirer (avec e	Hebrew: לְהָרִים	Hindi: जोर लगाकर उठाना
Croatian: dizati, vuci	Hungarian: (fel)emel	Indonesian: mengangkat
Icelandic: hífa, lyfta	Italian: sollevare, alzare, tirare	Japanese: 持ち上げる
Korean: (노력하여) (들어)올리다	Lithuanian: (pa)kelti, tempti	Latvian: celt; cilāt (smagumu); vi
Malay: mengangkat dgn susah paya	Dutch: hevelen	Norwegian: heve, løfte møysommelig
Polish: dźwigać, ciągnąć	Persian: به زور بلند كردن	Pashto: هسكول ، جګول پورته كول ،
Portuguese: puxar	Romanian: a ridica, a trage (cu gre	Russian: поднимать (с трудом)
Slovak: zdvihnúť (sa)	Slovenian: dvigniti	Serbian: zapeti
Swedish: lyfta, häva	Thai: ลาก	Turkish: kaldırmak
Taiwanese: (試圖)用力舉起或拖拉	Ukrainian: підіймати, тягти	Urdu: کافی محنت سے کھینچنا یا ا
Vietnamese: nhấc lên	Chinese: （用力地）举起
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