heft

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.”

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

   “"Look at the heft of 'n [a baby]," said the proud father, "entirely drags ye down, Miss Sybil, 'e do."”

3. isim Graveness, seriousness; gravity.

   “He's got a good voice, and reads well; but come to a sermon—wal, ain't no gret heft in't.”

4. isim Importance, influence; weight.

   “Put more baldly, the reason why Republicans and British Conservatives started giving each other copies of Atlas Shrugged in the 80s was that [Ayn] Rand seemed to grant intellectual heft to the prevailing ethos of the time.”

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

   “The turkey's nest was islanded with a fragrant swath,—the "heft" of the crop noted and rejoiced over,—[…]”

6. isim An act of lifting; a lift.

   “Deigning no answer, the sturdy parson seized the bigger of the two ash staves, and laying the butt of the other for a fulcrum, gave the stuck wheel such a powerful heft, that the whole cart rattled, and the crates began to dance.”

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

   “[I]f one preſent / Th'abhor'd Ingredient [a spider in a drink] to his eye, make knovvne / Hovv he hath drunke, he cracks his gorge, his ſides / VVith violent Hefts: I haue drunke, and ſeene the Spider.”

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

   “He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.”

9. fiil To test the weight of (something) by lifting.

   “[H]e took up a root or two [potatoes] here and there, and "hefted it," (that is to say, poised it carefully to judge the weight, as one does a letter for the post) and then stroked the sleek skin lovingly, and put it down gingerly for fear of any bruise.”

10. fiil To evaluate or test (someone or something).

    “Sim's ben to college, and he's putty smart and chipper. Come to heft him, tho', he don't weigh much 'longside o' Parson Cushing.”

11. fiil To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.

    “"[I]t's yellow! is it gold?" / "My!" exclaimed his mother, weighing it in her hand, "I do believe it is. Brass never would heft so much, and would be green. Bless me, Wat, this is a find! Where ever did you come by it? In the gutters, do you say?"”

12. fiil simple past and past participle of heave
13. isim A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.

    “[S]he came to fetch her [bairn] out of ill haft and waur guiding.”

14. isim A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.
15. fiil To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.
16. fiil To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.

    “[I]t may be as well that Alan and you do not meet till he is hefted as it were to his new calling.”

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

    “[…] I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canogate of Edinburgh.”

18. fiil Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.
19. fiil 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.

    “The heavy udders of hefted cows trailed on the ground, dripping milk on the greensward. Stray cattle ate the rich grass.”

20. fiil To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.
21. isim A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
22. isim A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.

    “Such an organ is now to be published by the house of J[oseph] Ricker, in Giessen, Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik, edited by Dr. Mark Lidzbarki.^([sic]) […] The size of the "hefts" will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost about 15 marks.”