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heavy noun
Meaning : An actor who plays villainous roles.
Meaning : A serious (or tragic) role in a play.
heavy adjective
Meaning : Of comparatively great physical weight or density.
Example :
A heavy load.
Lead is a heavy metal.
Heavy mahogany furniture.
Of comparatively little physical weight or density.
A light load.Magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C.
light
Meaning : Unusually great in degree or quantity or number.
Example :
Heavy taxes.
A heavy fine.
Heavy casualties.
Heavy losses.
Heavy rain.
Heavy traffic.
Not great in degree or quantity or number.
A light sentence.A light accent.
Casualties were light.
Light snow was falling.
Light misty rain.
Light smoke from the chimney.
light
Meaning : Of the military or industry. Using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment.
Example :
Heavy artillery.
Heavy infantry.
A heavy cruiser.
Heavy guns.
Heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries.
Of the military or industry. Using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment.
Light infantry.Light cavalry.
Light industry.
Light weapons.
light
Meaning : Marked by great psychological weight. Weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness.
Example :
A heavy heart.
A heavy schedule.
Heavy news.
A heavy silence.
Heavy eyelids.
Meaning : Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.
Synonyms : fleshy, overweight
Meaning : Of great intensity or power or force.
Example :
A heavy blow.
The fighting was heavy.
Heavy seas.
Meaning : (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight.
Example :
Heavy hydrogen.
Heavy water.
(physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average.
Light water is ordinary water.light
Meaning : (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain.
Example :
Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'.
Meaning : Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter.
Example :
Dense smoke.
Heavy fog.
Impenetrable gloom.
Synonyms : dense, impenetrable
Meaning : Of relatively large extent and density.
Example :
A heavy line.
Meaning : Made of fabric having considerable thickness.
Example :
A heavy coat.
Meaning : Full and loud and deep.
Example :
Heavy sounds.
A herald chosen for his sonorous voice.
Synonyms : sonorous
Meaning : Given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors.
Example :
A hard drinker.
Synonyms : hard, intemperate
Meaning : Large and powerful. Especially designed for heavy loads or rough work.
Example :
A heavy truck.
Heavy machinery.
Meaning : Dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal.
Example :
A heavy pudding.
Meaning : Sharply inclined.
Example :
A heavy grade.
Meaning : Full of. Bearing great weight.
Example :
Trees heavy with fruit.
Vines weighed down with grapes.
Synonyms : weighed down
Meaning : Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion. Especially physical effort.
Example :
Worked their arduous way up the mining valley.
A grueling campaign.
Hard labor.
Heavy work.
Heavy going.
Spent many laborious hours on the project.
Set a punishing pace.
Synonyms : arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
Meaning : Lacking lightness or liveliness.
Example :
Heavy humor.
A leaden conversation.
Synonyms : leaden
