different between heave vs fetch

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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To throw, cast.

   They heaved rocks into the pond.

   The cap'n hove the body overboard.

3. (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.
4. (transitive) To utter with effort.

   She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

5. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.

   Heave up the anchor there, boys!

6. (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.

7. (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

8. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
9. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

   The wind heaved the waves.

10. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

    to heave the ship ahead
11. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.

    The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.

12. (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.

13. (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)

1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
2. 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.
3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
4. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
5. An effort to vomit; retching.
6. (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
7. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

Translations

References

Anagrams

• hevea

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: f?ch, IPA^(key): /f?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English fecchen (“to get and bring back, fetch; to come for, get and take away; to steal; to carry away to kill; to search for; to obtain, procure”)  [and other forms], from Old English fe??an, fæ??an, feccean (“to fetch, bring; to draw; to gain, take; to seek”), a variant of fetian, fatian (“to bring near, fetch; to acquire, obtain; to bring on, induce; to fetch a wife, marry”) and possibly related to Old English facian, f?cian (“to acquire, obtain; to try to obtain; to get; to get to, reach”), both from Proto-Germanic *fat?n?, *fatjan? (“to hold, seize; to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). The English word is cognate with Dutch vatten (“to apprehend, catch; to grasp; to understand”), English fet (“(obsolete) to fetch”), Faroese fata (“to grasp, understand”), Swedish fatta (“to grasp, understand”), German fassen (“to catch, grasp; to capture, seize”), Icelandic feta (“to go, step”), West Frisian fetsje (“to grasp”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

fetch (third-person singular simple present fetches, present participle fetching, simple past and past participle fetched)

1. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
   • 1611 King James Bible, 1 Kings xvii. 11, 12

     He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     When they got home, the Rat made a bright fire in the parlour, and planted the Mole in an arm-chair in front of it, having fetched down a dressing-gown and slippers for him, and told him river stories till supper-time.

2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.

3. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
4. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
6. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
   • 1879, William Barnes, A Witch

     They couldn't fetch the butter in the churn.

7. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
8. To reduce; to throw.
   • 1692, Robert South, sermon 28

     The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

9. (archaic) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
   • 1631, Ben Jonsons, Chloridia

     Ixion […] turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes

   • 1692, Robert South, sermon 28

     He fetches his blow quick and sure.

10. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• fatch, fotch (dialectal)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fetch (plural fetches)

1. (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
   1. (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.

2. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
3. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.

   Synonyms: contrivance, dodge

   • 1665, Robert South, "Jesus of Nazareth proved the true and only promised Messiah", in Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 3, 6th Edition, 1727:

     Every little fetch of wit and criticism.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 29:

     And as to your cant of living single, nobody will believe you. This is one of your fetches to avoid complying with your duty […].

Interjection

fetch

1. (Utah) Minced oath for fuck

References

• 20 Things Only Utahns Will Understand And Appreciate

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; the following possibilities have been suggested:

• From fetch-life (“(obsolete, rare) a deity, spirit, etc., who guides the soul of a dead person to the afterlife; a psychopomp”).
• From the supposed Old English *fæcce (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; a mare”).
• From Old Irish fáith (“seer, soothsayer”).

Noun

fetch (plural fetches)

1. (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• fetch candle

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References

Further reading

• fetch (folklore) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fetch (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fecht