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What (who) is Heave - definition
Heave
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Heave (disambiguation)
·vt To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
II. Heave ·vi To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
III. Heave ·vt To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
IV. Heave ·noun An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
V. Heave ·vi To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
VII. Heave ·noun A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
VIII. Heave ·vt 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.
IX. Heave ·noun 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.
- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
heave
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Heave (disambiguation)
v. (P; tr.) ('to throw') they heaved the trash into the pit
heave
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Heave (disambiguation)
(heaves, heaving, heaved)
1.
If you heave something heavy or difficult to move somewhere, you push, pull, or lift it using a lot of effort.
It took five strong men to heave the statue up a ramp and lower it into place...
VERB: V n prep/adv
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Heave is also a noun.
It took only one heave to hurl him into the river.
N-COUNT
2.
If something heaves, it moves up and down with large regular movements.
His chest heaved, and he took a deep breath.
VERB: V
3.
If you heave, or if your stomach heaves, you vomit or feel sick.
My stomach heaved and I felt sick.
VERB: V
4.
If you heave a sigh, you give a big sigh.
Mr Collier heaved a sigh and got to his feet.
VERB: V n
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Examples of use of Heave
1. The first heave will be repairing the party itself.
2. But "one more heave" was beginning to be the mood.
3. He stunned the other competitors with a mighty heave of 87.1' with his fourth throw.
4. John Smith was mistakenly confident that one more heave would return Labour to power.
5. The world would heave a sigh of relief if these issues were resolved.