Heave can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| heave - lift or elevate | ||
| heave - bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" | ||
| heave - throw with great effort | ||
| heave - utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do" | ||
| heave - move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight" | ||
| heave - breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" | ||
| heave - rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" | ||
| heave - make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | ||
Noun |
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| heave - an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves" | ||
| heave - throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes" | ||
| heave - the act of lifting something with great effort | ||
| heave - (geology) a horizontal dislocation | ||
| heave - an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea" | ||
| heave - the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
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| 1. | noun | He gave it a mighty heave. | |
| 2. | verb | This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor. | |
| 3. | verb | Meanwhile still stranger sights appeared by sea and land. Before the crews had time to heave their anchors, the ships of themselves made sail, and a dolphin, leaping and sporting on the waves, swam before the commander's ship as a guide; whilst on shore Chloe's goats and sheep were led along by the sweet music of the pipe, which continued sounding deliciously, though the player was still invisible. | |
| 4. | verb | East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen. | |
| 5. | verb | Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over. |
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| noun | |
| He gave it a mighty heave. |
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| verb | |
| This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor. | |
| Meanwhile still stranger sights appeared by sea and land. Before the crews had time to heave their anchors, the ships of themselves made sail, and a dolphin, leaping and sporting on the waves, swam before the commander's ship as a guide; whilst on shore Chloe's goats and sheep were led along by the sweet music of the pipe, which continued sounding deliciously, though the player was still invisible. | |
| East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen. | |
| Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over. | |