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Tote vs Heave - What's the difference?

tote | heave |

As nouns the difference between tote and heave

is that tote is a bag, specifically a tote bag 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 tote and heave

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

tote

English

(wikipedia tote)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bag, specifically a tote bag.
  • A heavy burden.
  • Verb

    (tot)
  • To carry or bear.
  • *, chapter=8
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of (total), with e to distinguish from (tot) in writing

    Alternative forms

    * tot

    Verb

    (tot)
  • To add up; to calculate a total.
  • Etymology 3

    Shortening of (totalizator)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
  • *1892 , Banjo Paterson,
  • *:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
  • *:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,
  • 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
  • , year=1914 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=At the Earth's Core , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The Sagoths were now not over two hundred and fifty yards behind us, and I saw that it was hopeless for us to expect to escape other than by a ruse. There was a bare chance of saving Ghak and Perry, and as I reached the branching of the canyon I took the chance. Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight. Ghak and Perry had disappeared around a bend in the left-hand canyon, }}
  • 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.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end}}
  • 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.