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heave

  [heev] verb, heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav⋅ing; noun
Use heave in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
2. to throw, esp. to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.
3. Nautical.
a. to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.
b. to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!
4. to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.
5. to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.
6. to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.
7. to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!
–verb (used without object)
8. to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.
9. to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.
10. to vomit; retch.
11. to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.
12. to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
13. to push, as on a capstan bar.
14. Nautical.
a. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
b. (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.
–noun
15. an act or effort of heaving.
16. a throw, toss, or cast.
17. Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
18. the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
19. heaves, (used with a singular verb) Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.
—Verb phrases
20. heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).
21. heave out, Nautical.
a. to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
b. to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.
22. heave to,
a. Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), esp. by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
b. to come to a halt.
—Idioms
23. heave ho (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.)
24. heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon: The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.
25. heave the lead. lead 2 (def. 16).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME heven, var. (with -v- from pt. and ptp.) of hebben, OE hebban; c. G heben, ON hefja, Goth hafjan; akin to L capere to take

Related forms:
heaver, noun
heaveless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. elevate. See raise. 2. hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling. 11. surge, billow.
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heave   (hēv)   
v.   heaved, heav·ing, heaves

v.   tr.
  1. To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force: heaved the box of books onto the table. See Synonyms at lift.
    1. To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl: heave the shot; heaved a brick through the window.
    2. To throw or toss: heaved his backpack into the corner.
    3. To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable: hove the anchor up and set sail.
    4. To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling: hove the ship astern.
  3. To utter with effort or pain: heaved a groan of despair.
  4. To vomit (something).
  5. past tense and past participle hove (hōv) Nautical
    1. To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable: hove the anchor up and set sail.
    2. To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling: hove the ship astern.
  6. To make rise or swell: the wind heaving huge waves; an exhausted dog heaving its chest.
  7. Geology To displace or move (a vein, lode, or stratum, for example).
v.   intr.
  1. To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge: The sidewalk froze and heaved.
  2. To rise and fall in turn, as waves.
  3. To gag or vomit.
  4. past tense and past participle hove Nautical
    1. To move in a certain direction or to a specified position: The frigate hove alongside.
    2. To pull at or haul a rope or cable: The brig is heaving around on the anchor.
    3. To push at a capstan bar or lever.
n.  
  1. The effort of heaving.
  2. An act of hurling; a throw, especially when considered in terms of distance: a heave of 63 feet.
  3. Geology A horizontal dislocation, as of a rock stratum, at a fault.
  4. An upward movement.
  5. The act or an instance of gagging or vomiting.
  6. heaves (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A pulmonary disease of horses that is characterized by respiratory irregularities, such as coughing, and is noticeable especially after exercise or in cold weather.
Phrasal Verb(s):
heave to Nautical
  1. To turn a sailing ship so that its bow heads into the wind and the ship lies motionless except for drifting, in order to meet a storm: The brig hove to.
  2. To turn an engine-powered vessel in a similar situation so that its bow heads into the seas while proceeding at low speed.

Idiom(s):
heave into sight/viewTo rise or seem to rise over the horizon into view, as a ship.

[Middle English heven, from Old English hebban; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]
heav'er n.
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Heave

Heave\, v. t. [imp. Heaved, or Hove; p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven; p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.] [OE. heven, hebben, As. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heven, Icel. h["a]fva, Dan. h[ae]ve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. ? handle. Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, haft, Receipt.]

1. 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.

One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. --Shak.

Note: Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand. --Herrick.

2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

3. 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.

4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. --Shak.

5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores. --Thomson.

To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.

To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables.

To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her.

To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.

To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly.

To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable).

To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack.

To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it.

To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight.

To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line.

To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log.

To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.

Heave

Heave\ (h[=e]v), v. i. 1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

And the huge columns heave into the sky. --Pope.

Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. --Gray.

The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. --E. Everett.

2. 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.

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. --Prior.

The heaving plain of ocean. --Byron.

3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. --Atterbury.

4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] --Fuller.

To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear.

To heave up, to vomit. [Low]

Heave

Heave\, n. 1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves. --Hudibras.

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, and the like.

There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate. --Shak.

None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. --Dryden.

3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
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Language Translation for : heave
Spanish: tirar; levantar; arrastrar,
German: (hoch-)heben,
Japanese: 持ち上げる
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heave 
O.E. hebban "to lift, raise" (class VI strong verb; past tense hof, pp. hafen), from P.Gmc. *khafjanan (cf. O.N. hefja, Du. heffen, Ger. heben, Goth. hafjan), from PIE *kap- "seize;" related to O.E. habban "to hold, possess." Sense of "retch, make an effort to vomit" is first attested 1601. Nautical heave-ho was a chant in lifting.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: heave
Pronunciation: 'hEv
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: heaved; heav·ing
transitive senses
: VOMIT heaved his lunch> heave intransitive senses
: to undergo retching orvomiting
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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