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单词 heft
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heft

(hɛft)
Word forms: hefts, hefting, hefted
1. transitive verb
If you heft something, you lift it upward.
Emmy straightened, hefting her burden.
He hefted the heavy camera up onto his shoulder.
2. uncountable noun
The heft of something is its weight or bulk.
...a friendly wireless Internet gadget about the size and heft of a thick pork chop.
3. uncountable noun
If something such as an idea or argument has heft, it has the power to influence or impress people.
Goldstone wished Tom Hill were there to add heft to his argument.
The 155-page American edition of the book packs the intellectual heft of a much longertext.

heft in British English

(hɛft)
verb (transitive)
1. 
to assess the weight of (something) by lifting
2. 
to lift
noun
3.  US
weight
4.  US
the main part
Derived forms
hefter (ˈhefter)
noun
Word origin
C19: probably from heave, by analogy with thieve, theft, cleave, cleft

heft in American English

(hɛft)
Informal
noun
1. 
weight; heaviness
2. 
importance; influence
3.  US, Rare
the main part; bulk
verb transitive
4. 
to lift or heave
5. 
to try to determine the weight of by lifting
verb intransitive
6. 
to weigh
Word origin
< base of heave

Examples of 'heft' in a sentence
heft

Who think there is a unique pleasure to the heft and feel and smell of a book.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The common thread is managerial competence and intellectual heft and governing experience.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It lacks the natural heft you get in richer ice cream.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It took a lot of heft and weight to fling them around.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The new law is intended to add extra heft to the code.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Continued from page 27 whose humour disguises his intellectual heft.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And there is emotional heft here, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
After some huge laughs, the climax packs real emotional heft.
The Sun (2013)
 Given the heft of the Lions pack such negativity is probably going to fail.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They have height and heft but lack the power to prosper regularly against the stronger Premiership sides.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The big minus lies in a lack of heft away from the vocal set-pieces.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But the plot is plodding and the battle scenes are uninspiring - offering neither camp silliness nor emotional heft.
The Sun (2014)
Intelligence and imagination are both at work here; more subtlety and focus would give the production real heft.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The show lacks the grime and sting of poverty and the emotional heft that might have attended a more sober haunting of Scrooge.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
From the way she talked I felt there was some intellectual heft in her family background.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There were also many in academia and the literary world who admired the bravura style and intellectual heft of his poetry, plays and essays.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There's a huge emotional heft to tonight's double bill too.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Stand is one of those records where the surface provides an instant buzz, but the echoes and the spaces in between supply the real heft.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The ham gives the whole thing more heft, though feel free to leave it out if you'd rather.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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