Heave vs Launch - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
* Herrick
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
* Alexander Pope
* Gray
* E. Everett
(transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
To rise and fall.
* Prior
* Byron
To utter with effort.
* Shakespeare
To throw, cast.
(nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
(ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
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To make an effort to vomit; to retch.
To vomit.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
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An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
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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.
(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch.
To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.
* 2011 , Stephen Budiansky, Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 , page 323
(obsolete) To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), The Teares of the Muses
To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat.
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* 1725–1726 , (Alexander Pope), Homer's Odyssey (translation), Book V
To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.
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, title= (often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning.
* 1718 , (Matthew Prior), Solomon: On the Vanity of the World , Preface
* 1969 , (Maya Angelou), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , ch. 23:
The act of launching.
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(nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
(nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yaucht.
(nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like. (Compare Spanish lancha .)
English ergative verbs
Heave is a related term of launch.
In lang=en terms the difference between heave and launch
is that heave is to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult while launch is to send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation.In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between heave and launch
is that heave is (nautical) the measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time compare with pitch while launch is (nautical) an open boat of any size powered by steam, naphtha, electricity, or the like (compare spanish lancha ).As verbs the difference between heave and launch
is that heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards while launch is to throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly; to send off, propel with force.As nouns the difference between heave and launch
is that heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy while launch is the act of launching or launch can be (nautical) the boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".heave
English
Verb
- Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.
- We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.
- And the huge columns heave into the sky.
- where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
- the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
- The wind heaved the waves.
- Her chest heaved with emotion.
- Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves .
- the heaving plain of ocean
- She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
- The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
- The cap'n hove the body overboard.
- Heave up the anchor there, boys!
- to heave the ship ahead
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- The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave .
- The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.
Derived terms
*heave in sight *)Noun
(en noun)launch
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Alternative forms
* lanch (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) /Norman variant, compare Jèrriais lanchi ) of lancier, French lancer, from lance.Verb
(es)- There they were met by four thousand Ha'apa'a warriors, who launched a volley of stones and spears
- And launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.
- Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- With stays and cordage last he rigged the ship, / And rolled on levers, launched her in the deep.
- All art is u?ed to ?ink Epi?copacy, & lanch Presbytery in England .
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- In our language, Spen?er has not contented him?elf with this ?ubmi??ive manner of imitation : he launches out into very flowery paths
- My class was wearing butter-yellow pique dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.
Synonyms
* (to pierce) lance, pierceNoun
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