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HEAVE

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Irregular inflected form: hove   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throwing something heavy (with great effort)

Example:

he was not good at heaving passes

Synonyms:

heave; heaving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heave" is a kind of...):

throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))

Derivation:

heave (throw with great effort)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of raising something

Example:

fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up

Synonyms:

heave; lift; raise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heave" is a kind of...):

actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)

Derivation:

heave (lift or elevate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting

Example:

a bad case of the heaves

Synonyms:

heave; retch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heave" is a kind of...):

spasm ((pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel))

Derivation:

heave (make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of lifting something with great effort

Synonyms:

heave; heaving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heave" is a kind of...):

ascending; ascension; ascent; rise (the act of changing location in an upward direction)

Derivation:

heave (lift or elevate)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(geology) a horizontal dislocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("heave" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Derivation:

heave (bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)

Example:

the heaving of waves on a rough sea

Synonyms:

heave; heaving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("heave" is a kind of...):

ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)

Derivation:

heave (rise and move, as in waves or billows)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

Example:

The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily

Synonyms:

gasp; heave; pant; puff

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

blow (exhale hard)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

heaving (breathing heavily (as after exertion))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

Synonyms:

gag; heave; retch

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

heave (an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

Example:

The highway buckled during the heat wave

Synonyms:

buckle; heave; warp

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heave"):

lift (rise upward, as from pressure or moisture)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

heave ((geology) a horizontal dislocation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Utter a sound, as with obvious effort

Example:

She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Lift or elevate

Synonyms:

heave; heave up; heft; heft up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

lift (take hold of something and move it to a different location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heave"):

upheave (lift forcefully from beneath)

weigh anchor; weigh the anchor (heave up an anchor in preparation for sailing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

heave (the act of raising something)

heave (the act of lifting something with great effort)

heaver (a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard))

heaving (the act of lifting something with great effort)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Throw with great effort

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

heave; heaving (throwing something heavy (with great effort))

Sense 7

Meaning:

Rise and move, as in waves or billows

Example:

The army surged forward

Synonyms:

billow; heave; surge

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

blow up; inflate (fill with gas or air)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

heave; heaving (an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling))

Sense 8

Meaning:

Move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position

Example:

The vessel hove into sight

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "heave" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

He heaved a sort of shuddering sigh, and taking me in his arms, carried me downstairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No, except when she thought of her mother, and remembered where she had been used to sit and preside, she had no sigh of that description to heave.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

His broad chest heaves with pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He closed the door behind him, and then he stood with clenched hands and heaving breast, choking down some overmastering emotion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In space, light, furniture, and prospect, there was nothing alike in the two apartments; and she often heaved a sigh at the remembrance of all her books and boxes, and various comforts there.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Their harbour drill and their harbour gunnery had been of no service when sails had to be trimmed and broadsides fired on the heave of an Atlantic swell.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At first I perceived that he tried to suppress his emotion; he placed his hands before his eyes, and my voice quivered and failed me as I beheld tears trickle fast from between his fingers; a groan burst from his heaving breast.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I fell on my knees to preserve my liberty; but all was in vain; and the men, having tied me with cords, heaved me into the boat, whence I was taken into the ship, and thence into the captain’s cabin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Utterson heaved an irrepressible sigh.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then I realized that he was preparing to heave to, and dropped to the deck to be in readiness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)