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heave
English
Etymology
From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Verb
heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or hove, past participle heaved or hove or hoven or heft)
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- They heaved rocks into the pond.
- The cap'n hove the body overboard.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- Her chest heaved with emotion.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
- Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- Heave up the anchor there, boys!
- (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
- 1647, Robert Herrick, Noble Numbers
- Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.
- 1647, Robert Herrick, Noble Numbers
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
- 17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren
- the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
- The wind heaved the waves.
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- to heave the ship ahead
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, a sermon, An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation at Oxford
- She [The Church of England] had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wickliff's days.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, a sermon, An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation at Oxford
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
Derived terms
- heave in sight
- heave to
- overheave
- two, six, heave or two six heave (see in Wikipedia)
- upheave
Related terms
- heavy
- heft
Descendants
- ? Danish: hive
- ? Faroese: hiva
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: hiva, hive
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: hive
- ? Scanian: hyva
- Hallandian: hiva
- ? Swedish: hiva
- Sudermannian: hyva
- ? Westrobothnian: hyv
Translations
Noun
heave (plural heaves)
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
Translations
References
Anagrams
- hevea
heave From the web:
- what heaven looks like
- what heaven
- what heaven is like
- what heaven means to me lyrics
- what heaven will be like
- what heaven really looks like
carry
English
Etymology
From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kæ.?i/ or (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?k?.?i/
- Rhymes: -æri
- Homophones: Carrie, Cary
Verb
carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force
- Synonyms: impel, conduct
- to lead or guide.
- Passion and revenge will carry them too far.
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- (transitive) To have on one's person.
- To be pregnant (with).
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- the carrying of our main point
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- 2014, Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children
- Things of little value carry great importance.
- It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.
- 2014, Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion
- He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.
- 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- He absolutely carried the game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.
- (Southern US) to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- Will you carry me to town?
Synonyms
- (lift and bring to somewhere else): bear, move, transport
- (stock, supply): have, keep, stock, supply
- (adopt): adopt, take on, take over
- (have, maintain): have, maintain
- (be transmitted, travel): be transmitted, travel
Antonyms
- (in arithmetic): borrow (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
carry (plural carries)
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- 1862, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 10, page 533)
- Undrowned, unducked, as safe from the perils of the broad lake as we had come out of the defiles of the rapids, we landed at the carry below the dam at the lake's outlet.
- 1862, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 10, page 533)
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (Britain, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Crary
carry From the web:
- what carry blood away from the heart
- what carry blood to the heart
- what carrying capacity
- what carryout is open near me
- what carry oxygenated blood
- what carry out photosynthesis
- what carry deoxygenated blood to the heart
- what carry out means
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