heavy

aggettivo

1. 1

   Having great weight.

   Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.

   Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.

   Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

   But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.

2. 2

   Having great weight. Heavyset: overweight.

   When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.

3. 3

   Serious, somber.

   "We're still in an existential-stakes war with the Pa'anuri, and possibly with our own destructive tendencies." ' "Sorry. That was pretty heavy for someone who just woke up." "Oh, I'm fine. Waking up alive has ALWAYS meant spending the day trying not to be dead."

4. 4

   Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

   heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

   The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.

   The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.

   Sent hither by my Husband to impart the heavy news.

5. 5

   desuetoGood.

   This film is heavy.

6. 6

   desuetoProfound.

   The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.

7. 7

   High, great.

   1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs

8. 8

   gergoArmed.

   Come heavy, or not at all.

9. 9

   Loud, distorted, or intense.

   Metal is heavier than rock.

10. 10

    Hot and humid.

11. 11

    Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

    This car is too heavy on gas.

    He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.

    He was described in the theatrical prints as the “veteran Blenkinsop”—“the useful Blenkinsop”—“that old favourite of the public, Blenkinsop”—those parts in the drama, which are called the heavy fathers, were usually assigned to this veteran, who, indeed, acted the heavy father in public, as in private life.

12. 12

    With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.

    Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.

13. 13

    High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

    Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.

14. 14

    Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.

    it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch

    The surf was not heavy, and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.

    [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

15. 15

    Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.

    his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child

    The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.

    A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

    Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]

16. 16

    Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.

    a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.

    a heavy writer or book

    whilst the heavy ploughman snores

    a heavy, dull, degenerate mind

17. 17

    Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.

    The next day we only made some eight miles, as the road was heavy beyond all belief. It lay through a desert region of country which was ancle-deep ^([sic]) in soda and alkali dust.

    a heavy road; a heavy soil

18. 18

    Not raised or leavened.

    heavy bread

19. 19

    Having much body or strength.

20. 20

    obsoletoWith child; pregnant.

21. 21

    Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.

    heavy water

22. 22

    Of petroleum, having high viscosity.

23. 23

    Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.

    The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]

    The oil market is heavy, each day bringing along further supplies of shares from people who have not tired of the long-continued decline in the market.

24. 24

    Heavily-armed.

25. 25

    Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.

26. 26

    Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload. Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 pounds, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.

avverbio

1. 1

   In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.

   Heavy-laden with their sins, time hung heavy

2. 2

   To a great degree; greatly.

   Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.

3. 3

   very

sostantivo

1. 1

   gergoA villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.

   With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.

2. 2

   gergoA doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

   A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.

3. 3

   A prominent figure; a "major player".

   A collection of topical themes and love songs, featuring session work by women's music "heavies" Holly Near, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery, Robin Flower, and others.

4. 4

   gergoA newspaper of the quality press.

   The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.

   Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.

5. 5

   A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.

   In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”

   I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.

   A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”

6. 6

   arcaicoA serious theatrical role.

   Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles.

7. 7

   storicoA member of the heavy cavalry.

   Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13.

verbo

1. 1

   To make heavier.

   They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.

2. 2

   To sadden.

3. 3

   informaleTo use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

   The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

   […]the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.

   2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557, But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.

   2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421, But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.

aggettivo

1. 1

   Having the heaves.

   a heavy horse

Forme

plurale

heavies, heavys

comparativo

heavier, more heavy

superlativo

heaviest, most heavy

passato

heavied

participio passato

heavied

participio presente

heavying

3ª persona singolare

heavies