Heft vs Raise - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Weight.
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, title= Heaviness, the feel of weight.
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(Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
An animal that has become hefted thus.
(West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
* (William Shakespeare)
(US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.
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To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
To test the weight of something by lifting it.
(Northern England and Scotland) To become accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.
(obsolete) past participle of to heave.
(label) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
# To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
#* Bible, (w) xxxix. 3
# To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.
# (label) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
# (label) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.
# (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
(label) To create, increase or develop.
# To collect.
# To bring up; to grow; to promote.
# To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
# (label) To create; to constitute (a use , or a beneficial interest in property).
# (label) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
#* Bible, (w) xviii. 18.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
(label) To exponentiate, to involute.
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
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To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
(US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
(curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
(poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
As nouns the difference between heft and raise
is that heft is hip while raise is (us) an increase in wages or salary; a rise (uk).As a verb raise is
(label) to cause to rise; to lift or elevate.heft
English
Alternative forms
* haftNoun
- a man of his age and heft
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- He cracks his gorge, his sides, / With violent hefts .
Derived terms
* heftyVerb
(en verb)- He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.
Synonyms
* hoistraise
English
Verb
(rais)- I will raise forts against thee.
- I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
- God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Synonyms
* liftDerived terms
* raise Cain * raise fire * raise one's eyebrows * raise someone's consciousness * raise the alarm * raise the roof * raised by wolves * raised in a barnNoun
(en noun)- The boss gave me a raise .