ambition vs heave

ambition

verb
  • To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. 

noun
  • Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. 

  • An object of an ardent desire. 

  • A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal. 

  • A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things. 

heave

verb
  • To utter with effort. 

  • To throw, cast. 

  • To displace (a vein, stratum). 

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

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

  • To rise and fall. 

  • To pull up with a rope or cable. 

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

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

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

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

  • 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. 

  • An effort to vomit; retching. 

  • Broken wind in horses. 

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

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

  • A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory 

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