different between heave vs heare
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
heare
English
Verb
heare
- Obsolete spelling of hear
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
- How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together. Such vain Preservatories of us, are our Inheritances, even once removed: but look on it more Removes off, and continuing in thy Name, yet how little doth that concerne Thee (though the first Purchaser, or his Heire) Lazy Posterity, when they heare it so called know it by the Name, but not as thine; […]
- 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
Aromanian
Noun
heare
- Alternative form of heari
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
heare
- Alternative form of here (“army”)
Etymology 2
Determiner
heare
- Alternative form of here (“their”)
heare From the web:
- what here
- what heredity
- what heredity is and how it works in mice
- what heresy
- what hereditary means
- what hereby means
- what hereditary
- what hereditary diseases
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