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Definition: Heft |
HeftNoun1. The property of being large in mass. Verb1. Lift or elevate. 2. Test the weight of something by lifting it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Heft \Heft\, noun; German plural Hefte. [G.]. (references) |
Synonyms: HeftSynonyms: heftiness (n), massiveness (n), ponderosity (n), ponderousness (n), heave (v), heave up (v), heft up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exertion | A strong pull a long pull and a pull all together; dead lift; heft; gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time. |
Instrument | Handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heft |
| English words defined with "heft": Hefted, Hefting. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Heft" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (handle, knob), German (book, booklet, comic, exercise book, exercise-book, folder, grip, haft, handle, hilt, issue, knob, magazine, notebook, number). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Heft in BH (2001) | |
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| "Heft" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Heft" is used about 12 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "heft" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Heft | Last name | 400 | 21,527 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "heft": heft up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "heft": heft-dispenser. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
heft | 8 |
auto grand heft | 3 |
heft val | 3 |
daley heft | 3 |
escort ford heft service | 3 |
heft ii v | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rëndesë (attraction, gravitation, gravity, heaviness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weightiness), pjesë më e madhe (bulk), peshoj në dorë, peshë (caliber, calibre, Dolly, load, meterage, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, strain, weight, weightiness), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), masë (bar, body, Gage, gauge, mass, measure, measurement, populace, rate, scads, scale, size, ton). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тежина (ponderosity), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), значение (account, amount, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), повдигам (boost, bring up, elevate, give a lift, heave, increase, key up, levitate, lift, moot, pick up, prefer, present, pull up, raise, rear, start, take up, throw up, tip over, underlay, up, uplift, upraise), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references) | |
Chinese | 重量 (av, Avoirdupois, Weight, Weights). (various references) | |
Czech | tíha (heaviness). (various references) | |
German | gewicht (substance, weight). (various references) | |
Greek | σηκώνω (elevate, get up, heave, hold up, lift, pick up, raise, take up, upraise), βάροσ (burden, encumbrance, onus, overweight, weight), ζυγιάζω (ponder), ζυγίζω (balance, size up, weigh), λαβή (clutch, grip, haft, handle, knob, lug, pommel, pummel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | súly (bob, burden, caliber, calibre, gravity, load, onus, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, purport, weight), mérlegel (balance, measure, to balance, to ponder, to reconsider, to reflect). (various references) | |
Italian | peso (Bob, burden, consequence, drag, gravity, import, importance, load, shot, tax, weight). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peso (brunt, burden, cogency, heaviness, load, plummet, ponderosity, pressure, weight), esforo, avaliar o peso de. (various references) | |
Romanian | ridicare (adjournment, ascension, elevation, erection, growth, heave, hoist, lift, raise, raising, removal, rise, rising, round up, shrug, uplift, upturning), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, burden, charge, cumber, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, hardness, hardship, heaviness, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growing, growth, husbandry, increase, increment, jump, nurse, nurture, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing, upsurge). (various references) | |
Russian | вес (authority, ponderosity, poundage, weight), определять вес, большая часть (better part of, growing number, mass, the larger half), подбрасывать тяжесть. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | teret (ballast, burden, cargo, drag, encumbrance, freight, imposition, load, onus, tax, weight), tegliti (drag in, haul, lug across, tow, trawl, tug), podizanje (build up, heaving, lifting, uplift, withdrawal), odmeravati (weigh), glavna stvar (essential). (various references) | |
Spanish | sopesar (balance, ponder), peso (burden, dead weight, dollar, heaviness, kilo, load, peso, pressure, shot, weighing, weight), levantar (adjourn, boost, break up, build, dig up, draw up, elevate, erect, flush, get up, heave, hitch, hoist, hold up, Jack, lever, lift, lift up, pick up, prick, pull up, push up, put up, raise, raise up, rear, ring up, rouse, set up, spring, start, take, tip, to raise, up, wind up), influencia (ascendancy, clout, Diapason, hold, impact, inflow, influence, influx, power, pressure, sway). (various references) | |
Swedish | huvuddelen, vikt (concern, consequence, gravity, import, importance, magnitude, note, significance, stress, urgency, validity, weight), väga (go, ride, scale, weigh), lyfta (elevate, get off the ground, heave, hump, Jack, jack up, lift, pitchfork, raise, take up, throw up, uplift). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำหนัก, ยกขึ้นเพื่อชั่งน้ำหนัก, ความสำคัญ (emphasis, moment), มีน้ำหนัก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), itmek (foil, hustle, impel, jog, propel, push, repel, repulse, shove, thrust), ağırlık (arduousness, avoirdupois, dullness, force of gravity, gravity, heaviness, massiveness, plummet, ponderosity, richness, severity, slowness, weight, weightiness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вага (amount, authority, avoirdupois, burden, load, ponderosity, weight), зважувати (balance, scale, think over, weigh), піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, hoist, levitate, lift, prong, put up, raise, raise up, rear, set up, take up, up, upbear, uphold, uplift, waken). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heft": hefted, hefter, hefters, heftier, heftiest, heftily, heftiness, heftinesses, hefting, hefts, hefty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "heft": antitheft, theft. (additional references) | |
Words containing "heft": thefts. (additional references) | |
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"Heft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eft, eht, hafa, hafto, havft, hect, heet, hef, Hefc, Hefe, hefy, heif, heiff, heit, helt, heot, hept, hepta, hett, hewt, heyt, hfta, hief, Hkefg, huft, ietf, meft, zeft. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heft" (pronounced he"ft) |
| 3 | -e" f t | antitheft, bereft, cleft, deft, left, theft. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-t" | |
-1 letter: eft, eth, feh, fet, het, the. | |
-2 letters: ef, eh, et, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-h-t" | |
+1 letter: fetch, hefts, hefty, theft, thief. | |
+2 letters: father, fetich, fetish, fletch, haffet, hafted, hafter, hefted, hefter, thefts, trefah. | |
+3 letters: faithed, farther, fathead, fathers, feather, fetched, fetcher, fetches, fighter, fishnet, fitchee, fitches, fitchet, fitchew, freight, freshet, frothed, further, haffets, hafters, hateful, hefters, heftier, heftily, hefting, leftish, refight, shafted, shifted, shifter, terefah, thereof, thyself, twelfth, whiffet. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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