Heave vs Sigh - What's the difference?
heave | sigh |
(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.
* Atterbury
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.
A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.
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* Bible, Mark viii. 12
To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
To make a sound like sighing.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
* Shakespeare
To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
* Shakespeare
* Hoole
(archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
* Prior
An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between heave and sigh
is that heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards while sigh is (archaic) to utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.In lang=en terms the difference between heave and sigh
is that heave is to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult while sigh is to express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.As verbs the difference between heave and sigh
is that heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards while sigh is to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.As nouns the difference between heave and sigh
is that heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy while sigh is a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.As an interjection sigh is
an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.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)sigh
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed .
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}
- He sighed deeply in his spirit.
- And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
- The winter winds are wearily sighing .
- Never man sighed truer breath.
- They sighed forth proverbs.
- The gentle swain sighs back her grief.
- Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
Interjection
(en interjection)- Sigh , I'm so bored at work today.
