Hurtle vs Heave - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between hurtle and heave

is that hurtle is to hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently while heave is to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between hurtle and heave

is that hurtle is (archaic) to push; to jostle; to hurl while heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

As verbs the difference between hurtle and heave

is that hurtle is to move rapidly, violently, or without control while heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

As nouns the difference between hurtle and heave

is that hurtle is a fast movement in literal or figurative sense while heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

hurtle

English

Verb

(hurtl)

To move rapidly, violently, or without control.

The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.

(archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

* Fairfax

Together hurtled both their steeds.

(archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

* Shakespeare

The noise of battle hurtled in the air.

* Elizabeth Browning

The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.

To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.

He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.

(archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Noun

(-)

A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.

* 1975 , Wakeman, John. Literary Criticism

But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle .

* Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper

Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

A clattering sound.

* 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26

There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

Anagrams

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heave

English

Verb

(archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

* Herrick

Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.

To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.

To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

* Alexander Pope

And the huge columns heave into the sky.

* Gray

where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap

* E. Everett

the heaving sods of Bunker Hill

(transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).

To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

The wind heaved the waves.

To rise and fall.

Her chest heaved with emotion.

* Prior

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves .

* Byron

the heaving plain of ocean

To utter with effort.

She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

* Shakespeare

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.

To throw, cast.

The cap'n hove the body overboard.

(nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.

Heave up the anchor there, boys!

(ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

to heave the ship ahead

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To make an effort to vomit; to retch.

To vomit.

The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave .

To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

* Atterbury

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.

Derived terms

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Noun

(en noun)

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.