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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: heaves /hiːvz/ n (functioning as singular or plural) Also called: broken wind a chronic respiratory disorder of animals of the horse family caused by allergies and dust
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024heave /hiv/USA pronunciation v., heaved or (esp. Nautical) hove/hoʊv/USA pronunciation ; heav•ing; n. v. - to raise or lift with effort;
hoist:[~ + object]He heaved her to her feet. - to lift and throw with effort:[~ + object]to heave a stone through a window.
- to utter with great effort:[~ + object]He heaved a sigh.
- to (cause to) rise and fall with a swelling motion: [no object]His chest was heaving from the effort.[~ + object]The rough seas heaved the boat about.
- Nautical, Naval Termsto (cause to) move into a certain position or situation: [no object]The boat hove into sight.[~ + object]The captain hove the boat closer to the lifeboats.
- Physiology[no object] to vomit;
throw up. - Nautical, Naval Terms to pull on:[no object]The sailor heaved on the rope and pulled the box aboard.
- Nautical, Naval Terms heave to, [no object] (of a ship) to come to a stop.
n. [countable] - an act or effort of heaving.
- Veterinary Diseases the heaves, [plural] an episode of retching or vomiting.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024heave (hēv),USA pronunciation v., heaved or (esp. Naut.) hove; heav•ing; n. v.t. - to raise or lift with effort or force;
hoist:to heave a heavy ax. - to throw, esp. to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence:to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.
- [Naut.]
- Naval Termsto move into a certain position or situation:to heave a vessel aback.
- Naval Termsto move in a certain direction:Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!
- to utter laboriously or painfully:to heave a sigh.
- to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion:to heave one's chest.
- Physiologyto vomit;
throw up:He heaved his breakfast before noon. - Nautical, Naval Termsto haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan:Heave the anchor cable!
v.i. - to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements:The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.
- Physiologyto breathe with effort;
pant:He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort. - Physiologyto vomit;
retch. - to rise as if thrust up, as a hill;
swell or bulge:The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around. - to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
- Nautical, Naval Termsto push, as on a capstan bar.
- [Naut.]
- Naval Termsto move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation:heave about;heave alongside;heave in stays.
- Naval Terms(of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.
- Nautical, Naval Terms heave down, to careen (a vessel).
- heave ho (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.)
- Idioms, Naval Terms heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon:The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.
- Nautical, Naval Terms heave out:
- to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
- to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.
- Naval Terms heave the lead. See lead 2 (def. 12).
- Nautical, Naval Terms heave to:
- [Naut.]to stop the headway of (a vessel), esp. by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
- to come to a halt.
n. - an act or effort of heaving.
- a throw, toss, or cast.
- Geologythe horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
- Naval Termsthe rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
- Veterinary Diseases heaves, (used with a sing. v.) Also called broken wind. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.
- bef. 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from pt. and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin to Latin capere to take
heav′er, n. heave′less, adj. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged elevate. See raise.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling.
- 11.See corresponding entry in Unabridged surge, billow.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: heave /hiːv/ vb (heaves, heaving, heaved) ( chiefly hove)- (transitive) to lift or move with a great effort
- (transitive) to throw (something heavy) with effort
- to utter (sounds, sighs, etc) or breathe noisily or unhappily: to heave a sigh
- to rise and fall or cause to rise and fall heavily
- (past tense and past participle hove) to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position: to heave in sight
- (intransitive) (of a vessel) to pitch or roll
- (transitive) to displace (rock strata, mineral veins, etc) in a horizontal direction
- (intransitive) to retch
n - the act or an instance of heaving
- a fling
- the horizontal displacement of rock strata at a fault
See also heaves, heave toEtymology: Old English hebban; related to Old Norse hefja, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German heffen to raise, Latin capere to take, Sanskrit kapatī two hands fullˈheaver n |