What's the difference between hove and shove?

Hove


Definition:

  • () of Heave
  • () of Heave
  • () imp. & p. p. of Heave.
  • (v. i. & t.) To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
  • (v. i.) To hover around; to loiter; to lurk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
  • (2) On Brighton council Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Greens are focusing on ‘changing the direction of travel’ in Brighton and Hove.
  • (3) Chris Thomson, principal of Brighton, Hove and Sussex sixth form college What dismays me is the emphasis on qualifications rather than education.
  • (4) As well as being his first Miller, A View from the Bridge is the first time Van Hove has worked with British actors.
  • (5) In a speech in Hove, East Sussex, Cameron made an attempt to answer some of his critics who say the planned cuts are too harsh.
  • (6) Van Hove worried briefly about the change of locale.
  • (7) While individual schools like Hove Park and Kennet have found an answer which works for them, the question remains on how this success can be replicated across the country.
  • (8) But the results of this latest questionnaire seem to have bucked the trend by naming Brighton and Hove as the worst resort in the country.
  • (9) Brighton and Hove Albion have confirmed the appointment of Oscar García as Gus Poyet's replacement at the Amex Stadium, with the former Barcelona midfielder taking up the newly created role of "head coach".
  • (10) Óscar García has offered his resignation following Brighton & Hove Albion's defeat in their play-off semi-final against Derby County , with the Spaniard likely to leave this week, despite being given time to mull over his decision.
  • (11) The whole world wants to see our game.” Considering that Boro’s Basque manager is not given to hyperbole, his words serve as a reminder that Brighton & Hove Albion’s visit to Teesside represents the highest of high-stakes fixtures.
  • (12) And, although there are a few coups de théâtre (at one point the sky rains white balloons), audiences may be split over whether Van Hove has found a potent enough theatrical equivalent to Antonioni's visual poetry.
  • (13) Real Madrid’s Scotland Under-19 international attacker Jack Harper has signed for Brighton and Hove Albion on a permanent, two-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
  • (14) "One of the worst experiences was at this beautiful festival in Norway called Hove.
  • (15) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
  • (16) Defenders Christophe Berra (Ipswich Town); Gary Caldwell (Wigan Athletic); Craig Forsyth (Derby County); Gordon Greer (Brighton and Hove Albion); Grant Hanley (Blackburn Rovers); Alan Hutton (Aston Villa); Charlie Mulgrew (Celtic); Andrew Robertson (Dundee United); Steven Whittaker (Norwich City).
  • (17) Paul Holloway, head of electoral services Brighton and Hove city council, said: "We have seen a healthy surge in the numbers of residents making contact to ensure they are registered to vote... we have averaged around 2,000 alterations to the register every month and the post we receive recently has tripled.
  • (18) Brighton and Hove city council has put £7,000 into the scheme to help the city's unusually high number of independent shops which lack the financial might of a chain to support them.
  • (19) But screen-to-stage adaptations of loose trilogies by art-house directors are few and far between (even if Van Hove has also adapted works by Ingmar Bergman , John Cassavetes and Luchino Visconti ).
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Labour candidate Peter Kyle, left, knocks on doors to canvass opinion in Hove.

Shove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.
  • (v. t.) To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
  • (v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
  • (v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
  • (n.) The act of shoving; a forcible push.
  • () p. p. of Shove.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
  • (2) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
  • (3) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
  • (4) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
  • (5) Read more “Shoving an offer in front of our noses at the eleventh hour says a lot about how the secretary of state has handled this over the past three months,“ Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the BMA’s junior doctors, said.
  • (6) Podolski dispossesses Lahm in the box, with the aid of a subtle shove.
  • (7) As Gabrielle is at pains to point out, there was no unhappy childhood to avenge; no traumas to shove into the creative crucible.
  • (8) During the trial the officer accepted he was wrong in retrospect to have hit Tomlinson on the back of the leg and shoved him to the pavement as the 47-year-old walked slowly away from police lines on the evening of 1 April 2009, but told an often emotional trial that he believed at the time the action had been necessary.
  • (9) Check out Hamleys' predictions for this year's top Christmas toys , and you'll see a list dominated by pricey novelties: a breakdancing Mickey Mouse, a Barbie with an alarming fragile-looking articulated pony, a baby tablet that shoves "educational games" under your baby's nose.
  • (10) Updated at 3.23am BST 2.38am BST Another bout of Mitt Romney trying to ride over the moderator and just keep talking, and nearly pulls it off but Candy Crowley backs him down, but only after some verbal pushing and shoving.
  • (11) Welbeck climbs, gives Martin a gentle shove in the small of his back to ease the defender out of his road, and plants a header into the left-hand side of the goal.
  • (12) "A guy comes near my seat, shoves a badge that had some sort of a shield on it, yanks the Google Glass off my face and says 'Follow me outside immediately'," said the man, who was taken into a room for interrogation.
  • (13) "People were shoving each other, panicking, but the police kept attacking us."
  • (14) Tomlinson, 47, died shortly after being shoved to the ground by a riot policeman later identified as Harwood.
  • (15) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
  • (16) He did add a shove on a Colorado player in the aftermath, but the straight red was for the handling.
  • (17) The value of Doppler study and of arteriography is demonstrated in the present case of a woman with a five month history of pain and paraesthesias of the arm and hand, who shoved sudden occlusion of left humeral artery.
  • (18) Many died after spears were shoved into their vaginas.
  • (19) Violence-related morbidity data for adolescents from one community revealed that 50% of the male respondents experienced at least one pushing or shoving fight per year, and that by age 16 25% had already been threatened by a weapon.
  • (20) Most of us are not foolish enough to suppose that our electricity supplier specially packages up "green energy" for us, and shoves it down the wires.