What's the difference between heave and pant?

Heave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
  • (v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
  • (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
  • (v. t.) To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
  • (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
  • (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
  • (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
  • (v. i.) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
  • (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
  • (n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (2) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
  • (3) Principal ponies had a history of heaves, a disease characterized by recurrent airway obstruction.
  • (4) According to the CDC, a third of primary care doctors and nurses heave never even heard about PrEP.
  • (5) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (6) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (7) Identification of the physiologic importance of these mediators in the heaves syndrome or other potential equine allergic syndromes may contribute both to the basic understanding of the pathogenesis of allergy, as well as suggest possible avenues for control.
  • (8) When they reached the car, Amburn was heaved into the boot and driven all the way back to Roland's house by the Chiemsee lake, near the Austrian border, where he was kept locked in a makeshift basement cell for four days.
  • (9) I arrived at 3.45pm local time (3pm UK), nearly five hours before kick-off, and the press room was already heaving - few are prepared to take any risks with the Johannesburg traffic, especially after an official bus took four hours to get from Sandton to Soccer City on the opening day.
  • (10) Roth is hardly short of awards, but it's bad luck that he should have chosen to put away his pen just as a new British literary prize heaves into view.
  • (11) Two key opposition cities, Deraa in the south, where the uprising began, and Homs near the Lebanese border, which has become the centre of the nine-month revolt, were heaving with demonstrators chanting anti-regime slogans and waving a national flag last flown before the Assad clan swept to power in Syria more than 40 years ago.
  • (12) On top of the succession, that child would be the first direct female link to not only the heaving emotional tsunami that was Diana, but also the cloying sense of public ownership of Diana.
  • (13) Gawain grips the axe and heaves it heavenwards, plants his left foot firmly on the floor in front, then swings it swiftly towards the bare skin.
  • (14) There had been parallels with Munich to all this, the Londoners parachuted into enemy territory with the vast majority hostile within a heaving crowd, though there was to be no magical finale.
  • (15) His little tummy just heaved and heaved until he stopped.
  • (16) Their rejigged back line, sometimes suspect, heaved and succeeded in retaining the clean sheet.
  • (17) With Clegg and Cameron threatening to colonise Blair-style a huge share of the political spectrum, can anyone come up with something more convincing than either one last New Labour heave or the usual leftist pieties?
  • (18) Little wonder Robert Dowler broke down as they were read aloud, his shoulders heaving as he sobbed in the witness box.
  • (19) Plus bleacher seats for a cheering section.” For every David Byrne or Taylor Swift critiquing the new pay model, there are acts such as Detroit’s Death who are experiencing a career renaissance, thanks to music obsessives who trawl through back catalogues and share them in a noisy, heaving, digital jungle.
  • (20) So there I am, literally heaving with desire for him and suddenly his head is between my thighs.

Pant


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  • (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  • (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
  • (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  • (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
  • (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.
  • (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  • (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
  • (2) If the pants did become available in clinics, Dukelow said costs might be around a few hundred dollars (around £125) for the basic equipment plus a few tens of dollars per month for the disposable electrodes.
  • (3) In addition, we have also validated the use of Vtgpant at a low panting frequency in these subjects.
  • (4) When water was offered more than 15 min after the end of a period of heating, after panting had ceased, drinking occurred only if the water loss exceeded 50-70 g, about 0-6% of the body water.
  • (5) Amphibolurus muricatus, a species restricted to the more mesic regions of Australia, does not show any change of panting threshold with progressive dehydration.
  • (6) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
  • (7) The anti-ball crushing pants, or ABC pants, for short, have been all the rage since they were introduced at the end of last year, Lululemon says.
  • (8) To dilate any pulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses, the birds were warmed to induce panting, killed with chloroform, or injected intravenously with papavarine.
  • (9) Studies in respiratory physiology and acid-base balance of panting birds exposed to high Tas show that flying as well as nonflying birds can use the respiratory system simultaneously for gas exchange and evaporative cooling.
  • (10) We suggest that specializations of the soft palate and epiglottis in dogs for thermal panting appear to restrict the formation of an adequate oropharyngeal seal during feeding.
  • (11) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
  • (12) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
  • (13) I imagined him sitting in the car panting at my shoulder all the way and then yipping with excitement when we pulled into the layby.
  • (14) Intraperitoneal injections of a dopamine antagonist, haloperidol, induced a marked hypothermia, due to a downward shift of the threshold central temperature for induction of cold thermogenesis, panting and vasodilation.
  • (15) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
  • (16) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
  • (17) hour)(-1) as air temperature was increased from 10 degrees to 50 degrees C. Evaporation of the fluid from the paired glands could account for between 19 and 36 percent of the increase in respiratory evaporation associated with thermal panting.
  • (18) blocked panting and attenuated the decrease in Tb caused by i.c.v.
  • (19) During exercise, panting usually occurred in short regular bursts of about 10 sec duration, whereas during both mild and severe heat stress it occurred in bursts of irregular but usually longer duration.
  • (20) What a different kind of party it would be if the GOP could expand the not-caring-about-pants sphere beyond Mark Sanford!

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