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noun
weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
significance or importance.
Archaic . the bulk or main part.
verb (used with object)
to test the weight of by lifting and balancing: He hefted the spear for a few moments, and then flung it at the foe.
to heave; hoist.
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Origin of heft 1550–60;
heave +
-t, variant of
-th1
OTHER WORDS FROM heft hefter, noun un·heft·ed, adjective
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Hegang ,
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bundle ,
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hoist
How to use heft in a sentence By the end of the weekend, the turkey pile had dwindled surprisingly far below the lip of the Tupperware, but the whole container still had serious heft .
Bearaby’s blankets are weighty enough to induce these effects, but unlike most products, they get their heft from the fabrics they’re woven from—not from little metal balls stuffed inside.
The acquisition adds heft to Bertelsmann’s publishing portfolio and fits with plans to expand the company’s Penguin Random House unit.
One project taking this route, Tesseract, is currently running in a basement at the University of California, Berkeley, looking for ripples from dark particles similar in heft to those that Sensei targets.
Iridescent orange in color, it looks sort of like a rosé but has considerable heft on the palate.
And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft .
The film gave pretty equal heft to Captain America and Black Widow.
Its heft may scare away some casual readers, but Rough Country is surprisingly accessible.
In a room off the living room, saddles lounge everywhere you look, finely tooled leather saddles, things of great weight and heft .
The fibers of the meat absorb all the flavor, giving the beef tremendous heft .
"Heft it in your hand," said Barker, with boyish enthusiasm.
Tha weigh more, akordin tu their heft , than enny other kreetur, except a crowbar.
Considering the difference in our heft , I take it Ive got a birds appetite compared with you and Josh here—pound for pound.
Its no use trying for the rest, and weve got the heft of it.
There he seized a sharp axe, which he tried on the panel of the cabin, and then took the heft firmly between his teeth.
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British Dictionary definitions for heft
verb (tr)
to assess the weight of (something) by lifting
to lift
noun
US weight
US the main part
Derived forms of heft hefter , noun Word Origin for heft C19: probably from heave , by analogy with thieve, theft, cleave, cleft
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