heave
pronunciation
How to pronounce heave in British English:
UK [hiːv]
How to pronounce heave in American English:
US [hiːv]
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- Noun:
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- the act of raising something
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
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- Verb:
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- lift or elevate
- nautical: to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
Word Origin
- heave
- heave: [OE] Heave is part of a major family of English words that can trace their ancestry back to Indo-European *kap- ‘seize’. One of its Latin descendants was the verb capere ‘take’, which has given English capable, capacious, capstan, caption, captious, capture, case (for carrying things), cater, chase, prince, and many others.To Germanic it gave *khabjan, from which come German heben ‘lift’ and English heave (which also originally meant ‘lift’; ‘throw’ and ‘haul’ are 16th-century developments). Haft [OE] (literally ‘something by which one seizes or holds on to something’) and heavy are derived from the same base as heave, and have may be related. Hefty [19] comes from heft ‘weight, heaviness’ [16], which was formed from heave on the analogy of such pairs as weave and weft.=> capable, capacious, capstan, caption, captive, capture, case, cater, chase, haft, heavy, hefty, prince
- heave (v.)
- Old English hebban "to lift, raise; lift up, exalt" (class VI strong verb; past tense hof, past participle hafen), from Proto-Germanic *hafjan (cognates: Old Norse hefja, Dutch heffen, German heben, Gothic hafjan "to lift, raise"), from PIE *kap-yo-, from root *kap- "to grasp" (see capable). Related to have (Old English habban "to hold, possess"). Meaning "to throw" is from 1590s. Nautical meaning "haul or pull" in any direction is from 1620s. Intransitive use from early 14c. as "be raised or forced up;" 1610s as "rise and fall with alternate motion." Sense of "retch, make an effort to vomit" is first attested c. 1600. Related: Heaved; heaving. Nautical heave-ho was a chant in lifting (c. 1300, hevelow).
- heave (n.)
- 1570s, from heave (v.). Meaning "a dismissal" is from 1944.
Example
- 1. Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the lord an heave offering in your generations .
- 2. All the people of the land shall join with the prince to contribute to this heave offering in israel .
- 3. Heave their luggage into the car .
- 4. Would actually make me heave .
- 5. People with long time driving or heave labor burden .