heave

/hi:v/

Thân thiện

The sailor gives the heavy rope a final heave to secure the ship.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • An act of lifting or throwing something heavy with great effort: A forceful upward or outward movement, often involving strain.
   • A rising and falling movement: A rhythmic upward motion, such as that of waves or the chest during heavy breathing.
   • An involuntary spasm of vomiting: An ineffectual attempt to vomit.

2. Verb:

   • To lift or haul something heavy with great effort: To raise or move something using substantial physical force.
   • To rise and fall rhythmically: To move upward with a swelling motion, like waves or a chest.
   • To utter a sound with effort: To emit a sigh, groan, or other vocal sound laboriously.
   • To pull or drag on a rope, etc.: To exert force by pulling.
   • To vomit or retch: To make an effort to vomit.
   • To move in a specified way (nautical): To cause a ship to move in a particular direction.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • With one final heave, they pushed the car out of the mud.
  • The steady heave of the ocean was calming.
  • A sudden heave of nausea made her dizzy.

• Verb:

  • They had to heave the sofa up the stairs.
  • His chest began to heave after the long run.
  • She heaved a sigh of relief when the test was over.
  • The sailors heaved on the rope to raise the sail.
  • The smell made him heave.
  • The old ship hove into view through the fog.

Advanced Usage

• "heave a sigh": To sigh deeply, often expressing relief, exhaustion, or sadness.

  • He heaved a sigh and accepted the difficult task.

• "heave in sight" (nautical): To come into view.

  • Land hove in sight after weeks at sea.

• "heave to" (nautical): To bring a ship to a stop, especially by turning it into the wind.

  • The captain ordered the crew to heave to during the storm.

Variants and Related Words

• Heaver (n): A person or thing that heaves.
• Heaving (adj/n): The act or an instance of heaving; crowded. (e.g., ).
• Heave-ho (n, informal): Dismissal or rejection. (e.g., ).

Synonyms

• Hoist: To raise or lift, especially with mechanical help.
• Haul: To pull or drag with effort.
• Surge: To move in a powerful, swelling motion.
• Billow: To swell or roll like a wave.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Heave up: To vomit; to lift something up.

  • The rough seas made several passengers heave up.
  • They heaved up the anchor at dawn.

• Heave at/on: To pull on something with great force.

  • Everyone heaved on the rope to move the boulder.

Related Idioms

• Give something the old heave-ho: To get rid of something or dismiss someone.

  • My old computer finally got the old heave-ho.

• Heave into view: To appear, often gradually.

  • A tall ship hove into view on the horizon.

Học thuật

Noun

1. throwing something heavy (with great effort)
   • he gave it a mighty heave
   • he was not good at heaving passes
2. the act of raising something
   • he responded with a lift of his eyebrow
   • fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up
3. an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
   • a bad case of the heaves
4. the act of lifting something with great effort
5. (geology) a horizontal dislocation
6. an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
   • the heaving of waves on a rough sea

Verb

1. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
2. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
   • The highway buckled during the heat wave
3. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
   • The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily
4. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
   • The vessel hove into sight
5. lift or elevate
6. rise and move, as in waves or billows
   • The army surged forward
7. throw with great effort
8. utter a sound, as with obvious effort
   • She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do

Từ đồng nghĩa

• heaving
• lift
• raise
• retch
• gag
• buckle
• warp
• pant
• puff
• gasp
• heave up
• heft
• heft up
• billow
• surge