Definition of "heft" in English

noun

1. The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.

   • A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.

2. The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.

3. Graveness, seriousness; gravity.

4. Importance, influence; weight.

5. The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.

6. An act of lifting; a lift.

7. An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.

verb

1. To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).

   • He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.

2. To test the weight of (something) by lifting.

3. (intransitive) To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of heave

noun

1. A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.

2. A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.

verb

1. To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.

2. To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.

3. To establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; to fix, to root, to settle.

4. (intransitive, reflexive) Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.

verb

1. (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.

2. (by extension) To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.

noun

1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.

2. A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.