Heave vs Launching - What's the difference?

Heave is a related term of launching.

As verbs the difference between heave and launching

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

As nouns the difference between heave and launching

is that heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy while launching is the act by which something is launched; a launch.

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

:* {{quote-book

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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

*heave in sight *)

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.

launching

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which something is launched; a launch.

The launching of the Titanic.

* 2010 , Raymond Friedman, A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets (page 123)

By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.

Usage notes

* Launch'' suggests an event at a point in time. ''Launching suggests a process over time.