gasp vs heave what difference

what is difference between gasp and heave

English

Etymology

From Middle English gaspen, gayspen (“to gape, outbreathe”), related to and likely derived from Old Norse geispa (“to yawn”) or its descendant Danish gispe, which may be related to gapa (“to gape”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːsp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡæsp/
• Rhymes: -æsp

Verb

gasp (third-person singular simple present gasps, present participle gasping, simple past and past participle gasped)

1. (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.

2. (intransitive) To breathe laboriously or convulsively.

   We were all gasping when we reached the summit.

   • c. 1761-1764, Robert Lloyd, An Epistle to C. Churchill, Author of the Rosicad

     She gasps and struggles hard for life.

3. (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.

4. To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.

   • Quenching the gasping furrows’ thirst with rain.

Translations

Noun

gasp (plural gasps)

1. A short, sudden intake of breath.

2. (Britain, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).

Derived terms

• last gasp

Translations

Interjection

gasp

1. (humorous) The sound of a gasp.

   Gasp! What will happen next?

References

Anagrams

• A-GPS, AGPs, GPAs, PASG, PGAs, SPAG, gaps, spag

Westrobothnian

Noun

gasp n

1. loud talking, joking, fun

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːv/
• Rhymes: -iːv

Verb

heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or hove, past participle heaved or hove or hoven or heft)

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

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

2. (transitive) To throw, cast.

   They heaved rocks into the pond.

   The cap’n hove the body overboard.

3. (intransitive) To rise and fall.

   Her chest heaved with emotion.

   • Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
4. (transitive) To utter with effort.

   She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

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

   Heave up the anchor there, boys!

6. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
   • 1647, Robert Herrick, Noble Numbers

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

7. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap

   • 17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren

     the heaving sods of Bunker Hill

8. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
9. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

   The wind heaved the waves.

10. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

    to heave the ship ahead
11. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.

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

12. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
    • 1687, Francis Atterbury, a sermon, An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation at Oxford

      She [The Church of England] had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wickliff’s days.

13. (obsolete, Britain, thieves’ cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

Derived terms

• heave in sight
• heave to
• overheave
• two, six, heave or two six heave (see in Wikipedia)
• upheave

Related terms

• heavy
• heft

Descendants

• → Danish: hive
• → Faroese: hiva
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: hiva, hive
• → Norwegian Bokmål: hive
• → Scanian: hyva

  Hallandian: hiva

• → Swedish: hiva

  Sudermannian: hyva

• → Westrobothnian: hyv

Translations

Noun

heave (plural heaves)

1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one’s own body, or to move something heavy.
2. 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, etc.
3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
4. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
5. An effort to vomit; retching.
6. (rare, only used attributively as in “heave line” or “heave horse”) Broken wind in horses.
7. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

Translations

References

Anagrams

• hevea

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