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- A small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming.
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(figuratively) A messy, tangled, intractable, stay-away-from-it issue.
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The contract negotiations are turning into a real hairball.
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- An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
- 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.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
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(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch.
verb (heaves, heaving, heaved or, nautical, hove, heaved or, nautical hove)
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(context, transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards or forwards.
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(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.
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(context, transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
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(context, transitive, now, _, rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
The wind heaved the waves.
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(intransitive) To rise and fall.
Her chest heaved with emotion.
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(transitive) To utter with effort.
She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
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(context, transitive, now, _, nautical) To throw, cast.
The cap'n hove the body overboard.
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(context, transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
Heave up the anchor there, boys!
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(intransitive) To make an effort to vomit; to retch.
The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
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noun
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(anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The fruit of a rose.
adjective (hipper, hippest)
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(slang) aware
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(slang) trendy.
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noun (wikipedia, hotspot (geology))
(plural hot spots)
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(geology) the surface manifestation of a plume that rises from deep in the Earth"s mantle
- a dangerous place of violent political unrest
- a lively and entertaining place, such as a nightclub
- an area of radioactive contamination
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(genetics) the region of a gene in which there is higher than normal rate of mutation
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(computing) a location in which WiFi? Internet access is available
(wikipedia, hotspot (wifi))
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| hyperkeratosis |
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noun- In pathology, excess keratin formation on the skin surface, as can be seen in a number of dermatologic conditions.
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