| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Heave.[Websters]
2. To be balanced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have staggered, dangled or teetered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be enlarged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have chucked, launched or hurtled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be agonized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have hesitated, wavered or traipsed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be inflated or bloated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have suggested, postulated, commenced or initiated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be advanced or upturned.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb heave.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (heave) | 1. Utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do".[Wordnet]. 2. Throw with great effort.[Wordnet]. 3. Rise and move, as in waves or billows.[Wordnet]. 4. Lift or elevate.[Wordnet]. 5. Move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position.[Wordnet]. 6. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.[Wordnet]. 7. Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat.[Wordnet]. 8. Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit.[Wordnet]. 9. Nautical: to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight".[Wordnet]. 10. 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.[Websters]. 11. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.[Websters]. 12. 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.[Websters]. 13. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.[Websters]. 14. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.[Websters]. 15. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.[Websters]. 16. 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.[Websters]. 17. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.[Websters]. 18. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.[Websters]. 19. Base verb from the following inflections: heaving, heaved, heaves, heaver, heavers, heavingly and heavedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HEAVED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Specialty Definition: heave
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] heev. pret. heaved, or hove; pp. heaved, hove, formerly hoven.. | 2: [Verb] To lift; to raise; to move upward. So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay, Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence Had ris'n, or heaved his head.. | 3: [Verb] To cause to swell. The glittering finny swarms That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores.. | 4: [Verb] To raise or force from the breast; as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.. | 5: [Verb] To raise; to elevate; with high. One heaved on high.. | 6: [Verb] To puff; to elate.. | 7: [Verb] To throw; to cast; to send; as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen; as, to heave the lead.. | 8: [Verb] To raise by turning a windlass; with up; as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,. | 9: [Verb] To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers. Hence the order, to heave away. To heave ahead, to draw ship forwards. To heave astern, to cause to recede; to draw back. To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side; to careen. To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails. To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind. To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion. To heave taught, to turn a capstern, &c. till the rope becomes straight. [See Taught and Tight.] To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. To heave up, to relinquish; [so to throw up;] as, to heave up a design. [Vulgar.]. | 10: [Verb] heev. To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,. | 11: [Verb] To pant; to breathe with labor or pain; as, he heaves for breath.. | 12: [Verb] To keck; to make an effort to vomit.. | 13: [Verb] To rise in billows, as the sea; to swell.. | 14: [Verb] To rise; to be lifted; as, a ship heaves.. | 15: [Verb] To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost. To heave in sight, to appear; to make its first appearance; as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached. We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.. | 16: [Noun] heev. A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them.. | 17: [Noun] A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast. These profound heaves.. | 18: [Noun] An effort to vomit.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| 19th Century Satire | To raise. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Energy | The upward movement of land surfaces or structures due to subsurface expansion of soil or rock, or vertical faulting of rock. Upward movement of soil caused by expansion or displacement resulting from phenomena such as moisture absorption, removal of overburden, driving of piles, frost action, and loading of an adjacent area. (references) | ||
| Environment | In mining, the horizontal distance between the parts of a vein that have been separated by a fault, measured along the strike of the fault. A vertical fault can have no heave, and a horizontal fault can have no throw. See THROW. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | 1: Bring vessel to rest with head to wind. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: To pull on a rope or cable with mechanical aid, as distinguished from hauling by hand. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Labor | Mechanical vibration acting along the caudocephalic foot-to-head axis of the human body. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Mining | 1: A. A rising of the floor of a mine caused by its being too soft to resist the weight on the pillars. See also: creep b. Upward movement of soil caused by expansion or displacement resulting from such phenomena as moisture absorption, removal of overburden, driving of piles, and frost action.c. Horizontal displacement of strata or other rocks along a fault, as opposed to the throw or vertical displacement d. The horizontal component of the slip, measured at right angles to the strike of the fault. Used by J. E. Spurr and A. Geikie for offset. Used by Jukes Brown for strike slip e. Cf: upthrow f. Displacement of mineral vein by faulting. Lifting of floor of underground working through rock pressure J. E. Spurr and A. Geikie for offset. Used by Jukes Brown for strike slip. (references) | 2: Heave = horizontal component of the slip, measured at right angles to the strike of the fault; horizontal displacement of strata or other rocks along a fault, as opposed to the throw or vertical displacement. (1). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Transportation | 1: Motion of an aircraft, relative to the ambient undisturbed air, which has a component of velocity along the normal axis. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The vertical motion of a ship due to the range of waves. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch. (references) | 2: [Noun] A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. (references) | 3: [Noun] An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. (references) | 4: [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. (references) | 5: [Verb] (intransitive) To make an effort to vomit; to retch. The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave. (references) | 6: [Verb] (intransitive) To rise and fall. Her chest heaved with emotion. (references) | 7: [Verb] (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing. (references) | 8: [Verb] (transitive) To utter with effort. She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window. (references) | 9: [Verb] (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards. (references) | 10: [Verb] (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum). (references) | 11: [Verb] (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable. Heave up the anchor there, boys!. (references) | 12: [Verb] (transitive, now nautical) To throw, cast. The cap'n hove the body overboard. (references) | 13: [Verb] (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions. The wind heaved the waves. (references) |
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Common Expressions: heave
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Frost heave | Upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Heave offering | An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Heave up | Lift or elevate. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Two six heave | Two, six, heave is a phrase used in the British Royal Navy to coordinate seamen's pulling. It derives from the orders used in firing shipboard cannons. The team of six men had numbered roles. After loading, it was the task of the men numbered two and six to heave (in a coordinated fashion) the cannon out the portal for firing. Shanties not being countenanced in the Royal Navy, two, six, heave was pressed into service whenever seamen needed to pull in a coordinated fashion. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: heave
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fault heave | Mining | The amount of lateral movement of the strata at a fault. The fault throw and heave are essential elements of a fault and form basic values when exploring and driving to recover the disrupted coal seam. See also: fault shift. (references) | |
| Frost Heave | Administration | Ruptured soil, rock, or pavement caused by the expansion of freezing water immediately beneath the surface. (references) | |
| Frost heave | Aerospace | The raising of a surface caused by ice in the underlying soil. (references) | |
| Frost heave | Geology | A land surface that is pushed up by the accumulation of ice in the underlying soil. (references) | |
| Heave offering | Bible | Heave offering Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by the Israelites as a present. This Hebrew word is frequently employed. Some of the rabbis attach to the word the meaning of elevation, and refer it to the heave offering, which consisted in presenting the offering by a motion up and down, distinguished from the wave offering, which consisted in a repeated movement in a horizontal direction, a "wave offering to the Lord as ruler of earth, a heave offering to the Lord as ruler of heaven." The right shoulder, which fell to the priests in presenting thank offerings, was called the heave shoulder (Lev. 7:34; Num. 6:20). The first fruits offered in harvest-time (Num. 15:20, 21) were heave offerings. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | |
| Heave 'round | Transportation | To revolve the drum of a winch or windlass so as to pull in a line or anchor cable. (references) | |
| Heave to | Transportation | To bring the ship's head into the wind or sea and hold her there by the use of engines and rudder. (references) | |
| Heave up anchor | Food & Agriculture | To haul in the anchor by means of the cable to the extent that the anchor is free of the sea bed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Stratigraphic heave | Geography | Horizontal component of separation measured parallel to the strike of the strata, with the faulted bed absent from the measured interval. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Stratigraphic heave | Mining | A. For normal faults, the width of the gap between two parts of a disrupted bed, measured in the direction of the faulted bedding plane b. For reverse faults, the width of the overlap between two parts of a disrupted bed, measured in the direction of the faulted bedding plan. (references) | |
| To heave | Slang in 1811 | TO HEAVE. To rob. To heave a case; to rob a house. To heave a bough; to rob a booth. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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| Two six heave | 4 | Two six heave | 4 | |
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