Toss vs Heave - What's the difference?
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A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
(cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
(British, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
To throw with an initial upward direction.
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
* Addison
To agitate; to make restless.
* Milton
To subject to trials; to harass.
* Herbert
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
To discard: to toss out
To stir or mix (a salad).
(British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate
(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
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To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
(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.
Heave is a synonym of toss.
In intransitive terms the difference between toss and heave
is that toss is to be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean while heave is to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.As nouns the difference between toss and heave
is that toss is a throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care while heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.As verbs the difference between toss and heave
is that toss is to throw with an initial upward direction while heave is to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.toss
English
Noun
(es)- I couldn't give a toss about her.
Derived terms
* argue the tossVerb
- Toss it over here!
- to toss the head
- He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.
- Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
- Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
- I'll toss you for it.
- ''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
- to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.
- "Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
- John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .
- Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
- Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.
- tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
- (Shakespeare)
- to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar
- (Ascham)
See also
* tosser * toss off * toss in * toss and turnAnagrams
* * *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.