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Definition: Heaves |
HeavesNoun1. A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heaves" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonym: HeavesSynonym: broken wind (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heaves |
| English words defined with "heaves": Breastband ♦ heaver ♦ Leadsman ♦ Wind-broken. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heaves": yielding floor. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "heaves": Pursy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Body heaves hitting the ground ("Manic Demise"; performing artist: The Creation) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Heaves" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Heaves" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 66.67% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (plural) | 33.33% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dry heaves | 16 |
heaves horse | 8 |
heaves | 6 |
heaves horse in | 5 |
equine heaves | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heaves"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冻胀 (heave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | dušnost (emphysema). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | naar riggen loefter sig,maa loeftecylindrene aktiveres for at udstraekke borestrengskompensatoren og saaledes presse luft fra cylindrene ind i trykluftbeholderne (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bij de opwaartse dompbeweging van het boorschip moeten de steuncilinders een slag maken om de boorseriecompensator uit te schuiven en aldus lucht uit de cilinders in de drukvaten te comprimeren (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pendant que l'installation pilonne vers le haut,la course des cylindres doit mettre le compensateur en tension,comprimant ainsi l'air des cylindres vers les accumulateurs ou capacités d'air sous pression (as the heaves upward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | hebt hoch (uplifts), hebt (elevates, lifts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αχθοφόροσ (heaver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ló kehessége. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | al sollevarsi dell'impianto,la corsa dei cilindri deve mettere sotto tensione il compensatore,comprimendo l'aria contenuta nei cilindri verso i bomboloni dell'aria compressa (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn brishey ennal (the heaves). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eaveshay запал (fuse, fuze, portfire, roaring, vent, venthole). (various references) a medida que la instalacion se mueve en sentido ascendente, el recorrido de los cilindros debe poner el compensador en tension, comprimiendo el aire de los cilindros hacia los acumuladores de air e a presion (as the heaves upward, the support cylinders must stroke to extend the drill string compensator and thus to compress air from the cylinders into the air pressure vessels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "heaves": sheaves, upheaves. (additional references) | |
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"Heaves" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geaves, havas, havis, heames, Heaneys, heapes, heates, heavee, heavel, heeve, heiave, herveys, Heuvel, Hevea, hieave, hoave, neaves, teaves. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heaves" (pronounced hē"vz) |
| 3 | -ē" v z | achieves, believes, cleaves, eaves, Eves, Greaves, grieves, leaves, misperceives, Neves, peeves, perceives, reaves, receives, recitatives, Reeves, relieves, retrieves, sheaves, sleeves, steeves, thieves, weaves. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sheave. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-s-v" | |
-1 letter: eaves, haves, heave, shave. | |
-2 letters: aves, ease, eave, eves, haes, have, save, shea, vase, vees. | |
-3 letters: ash, ave, eve, hae, has, hes, sae, sea, see, sha, she, vas, vee. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, as, eh, es, ha, he, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-s-v" | |
+1 letter: behaves, heavens, heavers, heavies, reshave, sheaved, sheaves. | |
+2 letters: achieves, adhesive, behalves, behavers, haverels, heaviest, heavyset, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, shivaree, upheaves. | |
+3 letters: achievers, adhesives, chevalets, chivarees, evanished, evanishes, harvested, harvester, heaviness, misbehave, overhates, overheads, overheaps, overhears, overheats, revanches, shivareed, shivarees, upheavers, waveshape. | |
+4 letters: adhesively, aftershave, cavefishes, champleves, chevaliers, echeverias, enravished, enravishes, exhaustive, harvesters, harvestmen, misbehaved, misbehaver, misbehaves, overarches, preharvest, shinleaves, spokeshave, superheavy, waveshapes, whatsoever. | |
+5 letters: aftershaves, changeovers, earthmovers, harvestable, harvesttime, heavenliest, heavenwards, heavinesses, misbehavers, nonadhesive, outachieves, overcharges, overcoaches, overhandles, overharvest, overmatches, overreaches, preharvests, shivareeing, slaveholder, spokeshaves, unharvested, wavelengths. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 76 65 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- ...- . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a v e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0076 0065 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167887185 |
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