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Heave can be a noun or a verb.
heave used as a noun:
- An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, 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, and the like.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
heave used as a verb:
- To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
- To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
"We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing." - To displace (a vein, stratum).
- To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
"The wind heaved the waves." - To rise and fall.
"Her chest heaved with emotion." - To utter with effort.
"She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window." - To throw, cast.
"The cap'n hove the body overboard." - To pull up with a rope or cable.
"Heave up the anchor there, boys!" - To make an effort to vomit; to retch.
"The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is heave?
- Verb usage: We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.
- Verb usage: The wind heaved the waves.
- Verb usage: Her chest heaved with emotion.
- Verb usage: She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
- Verb usage: The cap'n hove the body overboard.
- Verb usage: Heave up the anchor there, boys!
- Verb usage: The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of heave are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of heave, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
