heavy : Idioms & Phrases

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heavier-than-air

  • adjective satellite relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces
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heavier-than-air craft

  • noun a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it
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Heavy artillery

  • . (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns.
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Heavy cavalry

  • . See under Cavalry.
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heavy cream

  • noun contains more than 36% butterfat
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Heavy fire

  • (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms.
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heavy hitter

  • noun an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in
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heavy hydrogen

  • noun an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)
    deuterium.
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heavy lifting

  • noun difficult work
    • the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting
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Heavy metal

  • noun a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead)
    heavy metal.
  • noun loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
    heavy metal; heavy metal music.
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  • (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns. a type of rock music (1970's), with a hard beat, amplified electronically
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heavy metal music

  • noun loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
    heavy metal; heavy metal music.
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Heavy metals

  • noun a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead)
    heavy metal.
  • noun loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery
    heavy metal; heavy metal music.
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  • . (Chem.) See under Metal.
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heavy particle

  • noun any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1
    baryon.
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heavy spar

  • noun a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium
    barytes; barium sulphate; barite.
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Heav"y spar`
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  1. (Min.) Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.
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heavy swell

  • noun a broad and deep undulation of the ocean
    ground swell.
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heavy water

  • noun water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors
    deuterium oxide.
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heavy weapon

  • noun large but transportable armament
    ordnance; artillery; gun.
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Heavy weight

  • in wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the heaviest of the classes into which contestants are divided. Cf. Feather weight (c), under Feather.
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heavy whipping cream

  • noun cream with a fat content of 48% or more
    double creme.
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heavy-armed

  • adjective satellite having massive arms
    • he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed
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Heav"y-armed` adjective
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  1. (Mil.) Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
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heavy-coated

  • adjective satellite wearing a heavy coat
    • heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses
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heavy-duty

  • adjective designed for heavy work
    • a heavy-duty detergent
    • heavy-duty gloves
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heavy-footed

  • adjective (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
    • his tired heavy-footed walk
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heavy-haded

Heav"y-had"ed adjective
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  1. Clumsy; awkward.
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heavy-handed

  • adjective satellite lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
    butterfingered; bumbling; handless; ham-handed; bungling; left-handed; ham-fisted.
    • a bumbling mechanic
    • a bungling performance
    • ham-handed governmental interference
    • could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
  • adjective satellite unjustly domineering
    roughshod.
    • incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
    • a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
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heavy-headed

Heav"y-head"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
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heavy-laden

  • adjective satellite burdened by cares
    care-laden.
    • all ye that labor and are heavy-laden"-Matt.11:28
  • adjective satellite bearing a physically heavy weight or load
    loaded down; burdened.
    • tree limbs burdened with ice
    • a heavy-laden cart
    • loaded down with packages
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heavy-limbed

  • adjective satellite having heavy limbs
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To lie hard ∨ heavy

  • to press or weigh; to bear hard.
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top-heavy

  • adjective satellite unstable by being overloaded at the top
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Top"-heav`y adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
Webster 1913