Definizione monolingua

heavy

heavy (third-person singular simple present heavies, present participle heavying, simple past and past participle heavied)

1. (Australian, New Zealand) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations.

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

heavy (plural heavys or heavies)

1. A 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. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

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

3. (aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.

   The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.

heavy (comparative heavier, superlative heaviest)

1. (of a physical object) Having great weight.
2. (of a topic) Serious, somber.
3. (UK, slang) good.

   This film is heavy.

4. (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.

   The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.

5. (of a rate of flow) High, great.
6. (slang) armed.

   Come heavy, or not at all.

7. (Music terminology) louder, more distorted

   Metal is heavier than swing.

8. (of weather) hot and humid
9. (of a person) doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

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

10. (of food) high in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

    Cheese stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.

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

    It was a heavy storm

    A heavy slumber in bed

    A heavy punch

    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

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

12. laden to a great extent.

    His eyes were heavy with sleep

    She was heavy with child

heavy (not comparable)

1. (India, colloquial) very

Definizione dizionario heavy

	pesante
	having great weight
	Di un oggetto fisico avente peso considerevole.
	Of a physical object, having great weight.

	pesanti
	having great weight

accanito

attivo

doloroso

forte

grande

grave

gravoso

greve

grosso

guardia del corpo

intenso

laborioso

molto

opprimente

plumbeo

ponderoso

triste

veemente

violento

Altri significati:

heavy (physical weight)

of rate of flow: high

(of food) high in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

(of a topic) Serious, somber.

serious

(of a physical object) Having great weight.

(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

(of a rate of flow) High, great.

(UK, slang) good.

(aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.

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

(of weather) hot and humid

heavy (damage)

laden to a great extent.

heavy (taste)

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

(Australian, New Zealand) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations.

(slang) armed.

of a person:doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people

(Music terminology) louder, more distorted

(dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.

(of a person) doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

(India, colloquial) very