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Weavest vs Heavest - What's the difference?

weavest | heavest |

In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between weavest and heavest

is that weavest is (archaic) (weave) while heavest is (archaic) (heave).

As verbs the difference between weavest and heavest

is that weavest is (archaic) (weave) while heavest is (archaic) (heave).

weavest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (weave)

  • weave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , Swedish '' .

    Verb

  • To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
  • This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
  • To spin a cocoon or a web.
  • Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
  • To unite by close connection or intermixture.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
  • * Byron
  • these words, thus woven into song
  • To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
  • to weave the plot of a story

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type or way of weaving.
  • That rug has a very tight weave .
  • Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
  • Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) veifa'' ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ''vibrare .

    Verb

    (weav)
  • To move by turning and twisting.
  • The drunk weaved into another bar.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Tevez picked up a throw-in from the right, tip-toed his way into the area and weaved past three Wolves challenges before slotting in to display why, of all City's multi-million pound buys, he remains their most important player. }}
  • To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
  • The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
  • * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Weave a circle round him thrice.

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    heavest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (heave)

  • 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.