heave

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have. (To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hiːv/ Rhymes: -iːv === Verb === heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or (nautical or occasional) hove, past participle heaved or (nautical or occasional) hove or hoven or heft) (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). Synonyms: heft, upheave (transitive) To throw, cast. Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw (intransitive) To rise and fall. (transitive) To utter with effort. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable. Synonyms: hoist, pulley, teagle (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. Synonyms: mound, tower 17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren the heaving sods of Bunker Hill (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum). (transitive, archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions. (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. Synonyms: throw up; see also Thesaurus:regurgitate (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. Synonyms: labour, toil (obsolete, British, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder. Synonyms: half-inch, mill; see also Thesaurus:steal ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== heavy heft ==== Descendants ==== → Danish: hive → Faroese: hiva → Norwegian Nynorsk: hiva, hive (e and split infinitives) → Norwegian Bokmål: hive → Scanian: hyva Hallandian: hiva → Swedish: hiva Sudermannian: hyva ==== Translations ==== === Noun === heave (countable and uncountable, plural heaves) (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. 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. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Coordinate term: pitch An effort to vomit; retching. (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== === Anagrams === hevea