| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb heft.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (heft) | 1. Lift or elevate.[Wordnet]. 2. Test the weight of something by lifting it.[Wordnet]. 3. To heave up; to raise aloft.[Websters]. 4. To prove or try the weight of by raising.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: hefting, hefted, hefts, hefter, hefters, heftingly and heftedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HEFTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: heft
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Heaving; effort. He cracks his gorge, his sides. With violent hefts. [Not used.]. | 2: [Noun] Weight; ponderousness. [This use is common in popular language in America. And we sometimes hear it used as a verb, as, to heft, to lift for the purpose of feeling or judging of the weight.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Geography | 1: Heft is geographically located in Austria. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 46.946667 degrees North latitude and 14.654167 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Heft is geographically located in Germany. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture), and a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 47.816667 degrees North latitude and 12.233333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Heft is geographically located in Turkey. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 37.983333 degrees North latitude and 36.383333 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted. (references) | 2: [Noun] (uncountable) Weight or the feel of weight. A quality hammer should have good balance and heft. (references) | 3: [Noun] An animal that has become hefted thus. (references) | 4: [Verb] (transitive) To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck. (references) | 5: [Verb] (transitive) To test the weight of something by lifting it. (references) | 6: [Verb] (transitive, Northern England) The process by which a farm animal becomes accustomed to an area of mountain pasture. (references) |
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Common Expressions: heft
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Heft up | Lift or elevate. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Robert G. Heft | Robert G. Heft is the designer of the 50-star flag, and the proposed 51-star flag for the United States of America. (references) | ||
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| Robert G. Heft | 6 | Robert G. Heft | 6 | |
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