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Heaving vs Billow - What's the difference?

heaving | billow |

As verbs the difference between heaving and billow

is that heaving is while billow is to surge or roll in billows.

As nouns the difference between heaving and billow

is that heaving is an occasion on which something heaves or is heaved while billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound.

As an adjective heaving

is (informal) crowded with people.

heaving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) crowded with people
  • * 2006, Tim Downie, "Ride Report: Bealach-na-Ba", uk.rec.cycling [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.cycling/browse_thread/thread/af08b5a62b82262c/192dcd8f8dca7b8e?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=7#192dcd8f8dca7b8e]
    • Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow, the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear.
  • * 2006, "Krusty", "Krusty's Holiday", uk.rec.motorcycles, [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread/f3c43a458f94a29b/bdff0eb3decbb853?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=99#]
    • The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared.
  • * 2007, "Jamie", "Hyde Park Calling 2007", "classic rock magazine readers", [http://groups.google.com/group/classic-rock-mag-readers/browse_thread/thread/7a5dc153e8401fb9/e32feaabd9dc9423?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=8#]
    • At this time it was pissing down and by the time Joe Satriani cam on the tent was heaving with people just coming in to keep dry.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved
  • * {{quote-book, year=1884, author=Edgar Allan Poe, title=The Raven, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Thomas De Quincey, title=The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Owen Wister, title=The Dragon of Wantley, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings . }}

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    billow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
  • * Cowper
    • whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
  • * 18?? , :
    • And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
  • * 1922 , :
    • Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To surge or roll in billows
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
    • During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
  • To swell out or bulge

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