different between heave vs remove
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:
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remove
English
Etymology
From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin remov?re, from re- + mov?re (“to move”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???mu?v/
- Rhymes: -u?v
Verb
remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)
- (transitive) To delete.
- (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
- Thou ?halt not remoue thy neighbours marke, which thei of olde time haue ?et in thine inheritance, that thou ?halt inherit the lãd, which the Lord thy God giueth the to po??e??e it.
- (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
- 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:
- (transitive) To murder.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
- 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p.20:
- Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
- I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- unstay
Antonyms
- (move something from one place to another): settle, place, add
Derived terms
- removable
- removal
- removalist
- remover
Translations
Noun
remove (plural removes)
- The act of removing something.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
- (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
- (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- (figuratively, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
- His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Latin
Verb
remov?
- second-person singular present active imperative of remove?
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?vi
Verb
remove
- third-person singular present indicative of remover
- second-person singular imperative of remover
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