Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Heave"

A: Th heave is to throw something with great effort. Here it i used as a metaphor for some financial action that was a lot of work and effort.
"The men heaved the bolder off the cliff."
"Working together, we were able to heave the fallen tree away from the house."

A: Heave- means contact him/her
sth - it's a slang word stands for "something"

So basically it means "Contact me when you need someone to talk to."

A: Busy/ full of people

A: Slack away isn't a phrase used, but heave away means the opposite. It means to put maximum effort into a physical task, often done as a team.
"Everyone grab the rope and when I say go, heave away (pull on the rope as hared as you can)."
"You could hear the men groan as they heaved away pushing the bolder."

A: It could mean to breathe out very strongly, like "He heaved out a sigh" or it could mean to push something heavy, like "He heaved out the old couch into the yard."

A: I heaved the huge bag of sand onto the crate.
Justin ate something poisonous, now he is dry heaving, trying to vomit.
She heaved a sigh of relief when she found out her baby was okay.

A: I heaved the boulder up the hill.

Heave that box onto the table.

He heaved the junk to the basement

A: As a proper noun heaven is (religion) the abode of god or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of god or the gods.

As a verb heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
As a noun heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

A: Both words mean lifting something and moving it. And both mean that it takes a lot of effort to lift and move this thing, so it is probably heavy. Sometimes in a situation, both words could be used. However, what the words focus on is different and so are some of the details:

"hoist" means to lift it up high. Often using ropes and/or pulleys to help lift it up to somewhere high up. So it is commonly used to talk about raising a flag up a flagpole. The person who pulls on the ropes that slowly lift the flag up to the top of the flagpole: they are "hoisting" the flag. It is also sometimes used with things like cranes, which can hoist large pieces of building materials or large pieces of cargo, shipping containers, etc up into the air, lifting them to move them somewhere else. Or it can be used informally to talk about a person lifting something up to somewhere higher. So I might hoist a small kid up and put them on my hip to carry them. Or I might hoist up a bag, lifting it up to my shoulder so I can carry it somewhere. Things like that.

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"heave" also means to lift, but it is more about the effort/weight. That it takes a lot of effort to lift and move this. Also "heave" is more about throwing something over to somewhere or moving something over to the side.

So "hoist" goes up and "heave" goes over.

Sometimes heave is focused so much on how much effort something takes to try and move it, that it actually means the person had to throw their whole body weight against it to make it move. So that is almost a combination of the throwing meaning and the heavy/effort meanings together, in a way.

And the last meaning for "heave" is when someone sighs very big, or they breathe really heavily, so that their whole chest and shoulders move up and down with how hard they were breathing. Or their shoulders heave up and down with strong emotion, like shaking when they cry. Or when vomiting/throwing up. So sometimes it is also used to describe the ocean, when waves look like the whole ocean is moving up and down like a giant is breathing under it. Or the earth in an earthquake. In a symbolic way, it is all a similar type of rising and then falling motion. So it is sometimes called "heaving".

So because "heave" can mean several related things, you need to look at context to know what meaning makes the most sense with any of the other clues that are described. And for some situations it is possible to use either word, but it will change the focus or the details depending on whether you use "heave" or "hoist" to describe it.

So some examples:

"He heaved some boxes to make space in the attic." = he moved some heavy boxes to the side, stacking them out of the way and he is probably a little tired now.

Standing up, he heaved his backpack over his shoulders. "Time for more classes." = using heaved means it is focusing on how it was heavy, and it may have changed his balance to lift it so he had to throw his body around a little bit. If he used "hoisted" instead, that means it would still be heavy to lift it, but the main focus would be on how high he lifted it up into the air. Both could be used for this situation, but the details and focus are different.

"She heaved the bag up onto the table." = the bag was very heavy, took a lot of effort to move, and she was only able to lift it just barely enough to then slide and shove it onto the table. It would be better to use "hoist" if she did a good job lifting it that high to put it on the table, so lifting it up high was the focus. But sometimes people might use "heave" to show that it took a lot of effort to lift it at all, and she couldn't lift it very high, so she mostly had to shove it onto the table once it was barely high enough. So using "heave" was still more of a sideways, moving it over, type of movement that is the main focus.

"They both heaved and pushed, but the car was too heavy to move without more help." = they threw their whole body weight against it, trying to pull and push it to move over to somewhere else. But it was too heavy so they did not succeed.

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"He heaved on the ropes, pulling the net slowly out of the water." = it took a lot of effort to pull and move the net.

If this uses "heave" to describe pulling a fishing net out of the water, it means it is talking mostly about dragging it sideways towards the boat or dragging it over sideways into the boat. And how much effort it took to pull that much weight into the boat, probably also having to throw his body weight against the ropes to help drag it in. So both of those meanings for "heaving". So it is mostly a sideways/over direction of movement and it is mostly talking about the heavy weight and effort it took, even having to throw his own body against the weight so that he would be able to lift it and move it.

But if it uses "hoist" to describe lifting a fishing net into a boat, then that means it is connected up to ropes and pulleys high in the air above the boat, and so it is more about lifting it literally up high into the air above the boat, before lowering it onto the deck or into the hold inside of the boat. So the focus for "hoist" is using something to lift it up high into the air, to then move it where they want it to be. So it is mostly an upward direction of movement, and they are probably using something like ropes and pulleys or a machine to help lift it so high into the air. So moving the heavy thing upward is the focus.

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examples for using "heave" for a heavy breathing, throwing up, shaking, rising-and-falling type of motion (which is all a loosely similar concept):

- "After running a mile, she stopped to rest. She was heaving for breath."
- "She heaved a sigh of relief. Everything was going to be okay!"
- The cat was heaving on the floor before it threw up a hairball.
- He heaved into the toilet, throwing up everything. He swore he would never drink alcohol again.
- Her shoulders heaved as she started to cry.
- The ground heaved underfoot, almost knocking him over. "Earthquake!" Someone screamed.
- The waves were huge, heaving the water around the boat and he was afraid they would be crushed by the storm.


There are kind of a lot of details. Hopefully that makes sense. It should (hopefully) give you a lot of the basic concepts at least.

A: @ItsHard
Heave and hove in this instance are more likely nautical terms:

for example..
Heave
Lift or haul a rope/something with great effort.

heave in
to rise and fall or cause to rise and fall heavily.

to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position: to heave in sight.

Nautical Terms
Hove
past tense and past participle hove nautical.

Hove into view (past tense)

A: "Hove" is not a word. "Heaved" is the past tense of "heave."
Edit: apparently "hove" is a different form of the past tense for "heave," but I have never heard of it, so it is not common. Probably most people would not understand if you said "hove."

A: Heave is indicating that something is using alot of effort or something is heavy. It can also be used to mean heavy breathing. It's not quite often used in the context of moving, but used more commonly when concerning breathing. For example, "He heaved the pile of bricks". or "He was heaving so much that his sister had to call a doctor "

A: It’s too heavy for me. Could you please grab it/lift it and put it in my car? (Or more natural- could you do me a favour and put it in my car?)

A: we are fortunate that we can enjoy the affluence of our country

A: Although Mount Fuji is actually huge compared to the waves, they are illustrated with dynamic energy and perspective to make it appear smaller.