Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HEAVE

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Definitions of HEAVE

1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
2. 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, etc.
3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
4. An effort to vomit; retching.
5. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
6. (transitive) To throw, cast.
7. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
8. (transitive) To utter with effort.
9. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
10. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
11. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
12. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
13. (transitive, archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
14. (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
15. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
16. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
17. (obsolete, Britain, thieves) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
18. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
19. (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
20. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

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Examples of Using HEAVE in a Sentence

• However, his overall cautious approach to reform, which was dubbed "one more heave", sought to avoid controversy and win the next election by capitalising on the unpopularity of the Conservative government.
• The engineer would not take his locomotive, whose number is lost to history, across the rickety structure, but he gave each of the passenger cars a hefty heave.
• After loading, it was the task of the men numbered two and six to heave (in a coordinated fashion) the cannon out the gunport for firing, using simple effort for a light cannon or a tackle apiece for larger ones.
• Initially in the early 1950s monohull ships such as CUSS I were used, but these were found to have significant heave, pitch and yaw motions in large waves, and the industry needed more stable drilling platforms.
• In geology, the effect is common in formerly glaciated areas such as New England and areas in regions of permafrost where the landscape is shaped into hummocks by frost heave — new stones appear in the fields every year from deeper underground.
• Sacrifices and offerings – the sin offering, burnt offering, whole offering, heave offering, Passover sacrifice, meal offering, wave offering, peace offering, drink offering, thank offering, dough offering, incense offering, red heifer, scapegoat, first fruits, etc.
• Plunkett showed his talent for tossing the football by winning a throwing contest at the age of 14 with a heave of over 60 yards.
• They may use a moonpool to shelter the position where the bell or ROV enters and exits the water, and the launch and recovery system may also use a bell cursor to constrain relative movement through the splash zone, and heave compensation to minimise depth variation of the bell during the dive.
• Notable bands signed to the second version of Radar included Midget, Prolapse, Acacia, Morning Glories, Heave, Unsophisticates and Pure Morning, a precursor of Clinic.
• 3 hydraulic capstans (two small on the bridge, one of each side, used to hoist upper yards, but never used during traineeships, one large on the poop, in front of the mizzen mast, used to heave tight hawsers during mooring operations).
• In 2001, discipline in the parliamentary party broke down and Coveney came out against Bruton in a leadership heave.
• Needle ice is essentially frost heaving that occurs at the beginning of the freezing season, before the freezing front has penetrated very far into the soil and there is no soil overburden to lift as a frost heave.
• Fanning awoke three times in the night, and he took this as a premonition, ordering the first mate to heave to.
• Selvy obliged, hitting 41 of 66 field goals and 18 of 22 free throws, his last two points coming on a desperate heave near midcourt at the buzzer.
• Linear accelerations in heave, sway and surge are sensed by the "otoliths" which are sensory hairs with a small mass of calcium carbonate on top, so that they bend under linear acceleration.
• He lives in St Leonards-on-Sea and is married to keyboardist Sharon Mew (known for playing in Elastica on the band's second album, and Heave), who is currently working as an artist.
• It's two hours of Super Comics: Bearded Brutes! Busty Belles! Bloody Blades! Exotic Settings! Colorful Costumes! A Beheading! A Castration! A Typhoon!" Roger Ebert called it "the embodiment of those old movie posters where the title is hewn from solid rock and tiny figures scale it with cannons strapped to their backs, while the bosoms of their women heave in the foreground.
• With the assembled Fenians enthralled by the report that the American government would not stand in their way should they raid Canada, Roberts and his faction would make a heave against O'Mahony.
• The term occurs seventy-six times in the Biblical Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible; in the Greek Septuagint it was rendered afieroma (ἀφιέρωμα), in the 1917 JPS Tanakh it is generally translated "offering"; while in the King James Version (1611) it is also generally translated "offering" but also sometimes "oblation" and four times "heave offering".
• The Bulls, out of timeouts, had a final chance, but a midcourt heave from Pippen at the buzzer caromed off the back of the rim.
• Danny Ainge set the tone by nailing 5 of 6 from 3-point range to give Boston early control, including a halfcourt heave at the buzzer before halftime.
• "Real Texts to Illustrate the Three Cue Systems: Downhole Heave Compensator," Whole Language Voices In Teacher Education, York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 1996, pp.
• A heave compensator is a kind of motion compensator that compensates for movement in only one direction.
• The holy writings were kept together with the equally sacred heave offering ("terumah") of the priests, and were injured by mice; to prevent this it was enacted that the holy writings defiled the hands as well as the heave-offering, thus leading to a discontinuance of the custom of keeping them together; discussion of the question whether the Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes are canonical, and thus render the hands impure; on the day of the election of Eleazar ben Azariah as nasi these books were declared canonical.
• When Tim confesses his inability to dance, Graeme teaches him the Disco Heave, part of which involves miming vomiting induced by hearing a Max Bygraves record.

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