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HEAVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Throwing something heavy (with great effort)
Example:
he was not good at heaving passes
Synonyms:
heave; heaving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("heaving" is a kind of...):
throw (the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist))
Derivation:
heave (throw with great effort)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of lifting something with great effort
Synonyms:
heave; heaving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("heaving" is a kind of...):
ascending; ascension; ascent; rise (the act of changing location in an upward direction)
Derivation:
heave (lift or elevate)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Breathing heavily (as after exertion)
Synonyms:
heaving; panting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("heaving" is a kind of...):
breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)
Derivation:
heave (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
Example:
the heaving of waves on a rough sea
Synonyms:
heave; heaving
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("heaving" is a kind of...):
ascension; ascent; rise; rising (a movement upward)
Derivation:
heave (rise and move, as in waves or billows)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb heave
Context examples:
That, in the fabric of knowledge, there should be any connection whatever between a woman with hysterics and a schooner carrying a weather-helm or heaving to in a gale, would have struck him as ridiculous and impossible.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“She attended on Em'ly,” said Mr. Peggotty, who had released my hand, and put his own hand on his heaving chest; “she attended to my Em'ly, lying wearied out, and wandering betwixt whiles, till late next day. Then she went in search of me; then in search of you, Mas'r Davy. She didn't tell Em'ly what she come out fur, lest her 'art should fail, and she should think of hiding of herself. How the cruel lady know'd of her being theer, I can't say. Whether him as I have spoke so much of, chanced to see 'em going theer, or whether (which is most like, to my thinking) he had heerd it from the woman, I doen't greatly ask myself. My niece is found.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A heavy swivel-hook, baited with fat salt-pork, was dropped overside; and by the time I had compressed the severed veins and arteries, the sailors were singing and heaving in the offending monster.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He lay down to rest on the other side of the open, near the edge of the bushes, his tongue lolling out, his chest heaving and panting, his nose still hurting him and causing him to continue his whimper.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards' distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Often, as I still lay at the bottom and kept no more than an eye above the gunwale, I would see a big blue summit heaving close above me; yet the coracle would but bounce a little, dance as if on springs, and subside on the other side into the trough as lightly as a bird.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then the sheet gave with greater ease, and Wolf Larsen was beside me, heaving in alone while I was busied taking up the slack.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Wolf Larsen motioned for me to come down, and when I stood beside him at the wheel gave me instructions for heaving to.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This time I remained aloft, and Wolf Larsen succeeded in heaving to without being swept.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
