Heaving vs. Surging — What's the Difference?

To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force

To rise and move in a billowing or swelling manner.

To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl

To roll or be tossed about on waves, as a boat.

To throw or toss

To move like advancing waves

To give out or utter with effort or pain

To increase suddenly

To vomit (something).

To improve one's performance suddenly, especially in bettering one's standing in a competition.

To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable

(Nautical) To slip around a windlass. Used of a rope.

To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling

To make a dramatic increase in

To make rise or swell

(Nautical) To loosen or slacken (a cable) suddenly.

(Geology) To displace or move (a vein, lode, or stratum, for example).

A powerful wave or swell of water.

To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge

A sudden rushing motion like that of a great wave

To rise and fall in turn, as waves.

The forward and backward motion of a ship subjected to wave action.

To gag or vomit.

A sudden onrush or increase

To pant; gasp

A period of intense effort that improves a competitor's standing, as in a race.

To move in a certain direction or to a specified position

A sudden, transient increase or oscillation in electric current or voltage.

To pull at or haul a rope or cable

(Astronomy) A brief increase in the intensity of solar activity such as X-ray emission, solar wind, solar flares, and prominences.

To push at a capstan bar or lever.

The part of a windlass into which the cable surges.

The act or effort of raising or lifting something

A temporary release or slackening of a cable.

An act of hurling; a throw, especially when considered in terms of distance

The action or an instance of a surge.

A horizontal dislocation, as of a rock stratum, at a fault.

Present participle of surge

An upward movement of a surface, especially when caused by swelling and expansion of clay, removal of overburden, or freezing of subsurface water.

Characterized by great swelling waves or surges;

An upward movement, especially of a ship or aircraft.

The act or an instance of gagging or vomiting.

Heaves (used with a sing. or pl. verb) See recurrent airway obstruction.

Present participle of heave

(informal) Crowded with people.

An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.

A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling);

Breathing heavily (as after exertion)

The act of lifting something with great effort

Throwing something heavy (with great effort);

Rising and falling alternately as in waves;