heft
IPA: hˈɛft
noun
- (uncountable)
- The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
- (dated except UK, dialectal and US) The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
- (figurative) Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
- (figurative) Importance, influence; weight.
- (US, informal, dated) The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
- (countable)
- (UK, dialectal) An act of lifting; a lift.
- (obsolete) An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.
- A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.
- A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.
- A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
- A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.
verb
- (transitive)
- To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).
- To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
- (figurative) To evaluate or test (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.
- (agriculture) To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.
- (figurative)
- To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.
- To establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; to fix, to root, to settle.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.
- (agriculture) To cause (milk) to be held in a cow's udder until the latter becomes hard and swollen, either by not milking the cow or by stopping up the teats, to make the cow look healthy; also, to cause (a cow) to have an udder in this condition.
- (by extension) To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.
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Examples of "heft" in Sentences
- It didn't compare in heft to what a Marine carried on an amphibious landing.
- The manager continues to see value in heft, although muscle can be accompanied by subtlety.
- Larry Bird, Danny Ainge (who played with Petrovic in Portland) and other former NBA stars are interviewed, but the heft comes from the Croatian-born Kukoc and Radja.
- True, as Jaffe predicts, hardly anyone is really making any money; most only the people who are, indeed, are the old usual suspects with the big label heft behind them.
- Don't write more words than you need to add "heft" - people don't have time to waste and fluff makes you look bad - but if you need 500 words to sell the product or service, write 500.
- Danson, as the constantly stoned and seemingly monstrously self-absorbed magazine editor George, gives the show weight and heft, which is hard to see in the first several episodes because George appears to be a flibbertigibbet.
- The prospect of the BBC “using its massive heft is likely to upset UK media and Internet companies, which have often complained that the corporation – funded by a mandatory tax on UK television households totalling nearly 3 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) – has encroached on activities in the private sector,” says the story, adding”
- He bade the Scrivener write the tale of the Men of the Sickle at an hundred and a half, and his folk fared past the War-leader joyously, being one half of them bowmen; and fell shooters they were; the other half were girt with swords, and bore withal long ashen staves armed with great blades curved inwards, which weapon they called heft-sax.
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