| 单词 | heft |
| 释义 | heft (once / 2282 pages) nv Heft is the bulk or weight of a person or thing. You might shift the heft of that huge bag of dog food you just bought over to your left arm while you use your right hand to open the door. The heft of your big suitcase might make you question the wisdom of packing so many books. You can use heft as a verb, too — you could move the books into your backpack and then heft it back onto your shoulder. Heft comes from the verb heave, "lift with effort," modeled on verb/noun combinations like "thieve" and "theft" or "weave" and "weft." WORD FAMILYheft: hefted, hefting, hefts, hefty+/hefty: heftier, heftiest, heftily, heftiness USAGE EXAMPLESIn Benedict Cumberbatch’s capable hands, the magical man of mystery transcends his comic-book roots and becomes a character with plenty of genuine dramatic heft. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) And it wasn’t treated with sufficient heft by the media, especially cable television. Time(Dec 19, 2016) The Nobel Prize, for all its momentous heft will never outweigh Dylan’s true accomplishment. Time(Dec 10, 2016) 1n the property of being large in mass Syn|Hyper heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness heaviness, weightiness the property of being comparatively great in weight 2v test the weight of something by lifting it Hyper librate, weigh determine the weight of 3v lift or elevate Syn|Hypo|Hyper heave, heave up, heft up upheave lift forcefully from beneath weigh anchor, weigh the anchorheave up an anchor in preparation for sailing lift take hold of something and move it to a different location |
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