The difference between Heave and Throw

When used as nouns, heave means an effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy, whereas throw means the flight of a thrown object.

When used as verbs, heave means to lift with difficulty, whereas throw means to twist or turn.

check bellow for the other definitions of Heave and Throw

  1. Heave as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

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

  2. Heave as a verb (transitive):

    To throw, cast.

    Examples:

    "They heaved rocks into the pond."

    "The cap'n hove the body overboard."

  3. Heave as a verb (intransitive):

    To rise and fall.

    Examples:

    "Her chest heaved with emotion."

  4. Heave as a verb (transitive):

    To utter with effort.

    Examples:

    "She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window."

  5. Heave as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To pull up with a rope or cable.

    Examples:

    "Heave up the anchor there, boys!"

  6. Heave as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

  7. Heave as a verb (intransitive):

    To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

  8. Heave as a verb (transitive, mining, geology):

    To displace (a vein, stratum).

  9. Heave as a verb (transitive, now, _, rare):

    To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

    Examples:

    "The wind heaved the waves."

  10. Heave as a verb (ambitransitive, nautical):

    To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

    Examples:

    "to heave the ship ahead"

  11. Heave as a verb (intransitive):

    To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.

    Examples:

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

  12. Heave as a verb (intransitive):

    To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

  13. Heave as a verb (obsolete, UK, thieves):

    To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

  1. Heave as a noun:

    An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.

  2. Heave as a noun:

    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. Heave as a noun:

    A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

  4. Heave as a noun (nautical):

    The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare .

  5. Heave as a noun:

    An effort to vomit; retching.

  6. Heave as a noun:

    Broken wind in horses.

  1. Throw as a verb (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England):

    To twist or turn.

    Examples:

    "A thrown nail. "

  2. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

    Examples:

    "'throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider"

  3. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To eject or cause to fall off.

  4. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To move to another position or condition; to displace.

    Examples:

    "'throw the switch"

  5. Throw as a verb (ceramics):

    To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

  6. Throw as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

  7. Throw as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

    Examples:

    "If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception."

  8. Throw as a verb (sports):

    To intentionally lose a game.

    Examples:

    "The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match."

  9. Throw as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To confuse or mislead.

    Examples:

    "The deliberate red herring threw me at first."

  10. Throw as a verb (figuratively):

    To send desperately.

    Examples:

    "Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle."

  11. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To imprison.

    Examples:

    "The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail."

  12. Throw as a verb:

    To organize an event, especially a party.

  13. Throw as a verb:

    To roll (a die or dice).

  14. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

  15. Throw as a verb (transitive, bridge):

    To discard.

  16. Throw as a verb (martial arts):

    To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.

  17. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of one's voice):

    To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.

  18. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

  19. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To project or send forth.

  20. Throw as a verb:

    To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

  21. Throw as a verb:

    To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tomlinson"

  22. Throw as a verb (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.):

    To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

  23. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To install a bridge.

  1. Throw as a noun:

    The flight of a thrown object

    Examples:

    "What a great throw by the quarterback!"

  2. Throw as a noun:

    The act of throwing something.

    Examples:

    "With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow."

  3. Throw as a noun:

    One's ability to throw

    Examples:

    "He's got a girl's throw."

    "He's always had a pretty decent throw."

  4. Throw as a noun:

    A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.

  5. Throw as a noun:

    A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

  6. Throw as a noun:

    A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

    Examples:

    "Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw."

  1. Throw as a noun:

    Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  2. Throw as a noun (veterinary):

    The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

  1. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of animals):

    To give birth to.

  1. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A moment, time, occasion.

  2. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A period of time; a while.

  1. Throw as a noun:

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