Heavy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Heavy	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Heavy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heavy adv slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" Synonym(s): heavy, heavily adj of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture" Antonym(s): light unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic" Antonym(s): light of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "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" Antonym(s): light marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids" Antonym(s): light usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it Synonym(s): fleshy, heavy, overweight (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" Synonym(s): clayey, cloggy, heavy darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" Synonym(s): heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas" Antonym(s): light (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water" Antonym(s): light (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'" permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" Synonym(s): dense, heavy, impenetrable of relatively large extent and density; "a heavy line" made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat" prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" Synonym(s): big(a), heavy(a) full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" Synonym(s): heavy, sonorous given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" Synonym(s): intemperate, hard, heavy of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" Synonym(s): grave, grievous, heavy, weighty slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" Synonym(s): heavy, lumbering, ponderous large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery" dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding" sharply inclined; "a heavy grade" full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes" Synonym(s): heavy, weighed down requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" Synonym(s): heavy, labored, laboured characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "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" Synonym(s): arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" Synonym(s): heavy, leaden (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" Synonym(s): heavy, profound, sound, wakeless in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" Synonym(s): big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p) n an actor who plays villainous roles a serious (or tragic) role in a play
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lie \Lie\, v. i. [imp. {Lay} (l[amac]); p. p. {Lain} (l[amac]n), ({Lien} (l[imac]"[ecr]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lying}.] [OE. lien, liggen, AS. licgan; akin to D. liggen, OHG. ligen, licken, G. liegen, Icel. liggja, Sw. ligga, Dan. ligge, Goth. ligan, Russ. lejate, L. lectus bed, Gr. le`chos bed, le`xasqai to lie. Cf. {Lair}, {Law}, {Lay}, v. t., {Litter}, {Low}, adj.] 1. To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. --Dryden. 2. To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port. 3. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall. 4. To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in. Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. --Collier. He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. --Locke. 5. To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. --Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. --Dickens. 6. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest. The wind is loud and will not lie. --Shak. 7. (Law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained. [bd]An appeal lies in this case.[b8] --Parsons. Note: Through ignorance or carelessness speakers and writers often confuse the forms of the two distinct verbs lay and lie. Lay is a transitive verb, and has for its preterit laid; as, he told me to lay it down, and I laid it down. Lie is intransitive, and has for its preterit lay; as, he told me to lie down, and I lay down. Some persons blunder by using laid for the preterit of lie; as, he told me to lie down, and I laid down. So persons often say incorrectly, the ship laid at anchor; they laid by during the storm; the book was laying on the shelf, etc. It is only necessary to remember, in all such cases, that laid is the preterit of lay, and not of lie. {To lie along the shore} (Naut.), to coast, keeping land in sight. {To lie at the door of}, to be imputable to; as, the sin, blame, etc., lies at your door. {To lie at the heart}, to be an object of affection, desire, or anxiety. --Sir W. Temple. {To lie at the mercy of}, to be in the power of. {To lie by}. (a) To remain with; to be at hand; as, he has the manuscript lying by him. (b) To rest; to intermit labor; as, we lay by during the heat of the day. {To lie hard} [or] {heavy}, to press or weigh; to bear hard. {To lie in}, to be in childbed; to bring forth young. {To lie in one}, to be in the power of; to belong to. [bd]As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.[b8] --Rom. xii. 18. {To lie in the way}, to be an obstacle or impediment. {To lie in wait}, to wait in concealment; to lie in ambush. {To lie on} [or] {upon}. (a) To depend on; as, his life lies on the result. (b) To bear, rest, press, or weigh on. {To lie low}, to remain in concealment or inactive. [Slang] {To lie on hand}, {To lie on one's hands}, to remain unsold or unused; as, the goods are still lying on his hands; they have too much time lying on their hands. {To lie on the head of}, to be imputed to. What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head. --Shak. {To lie over}. (a) To remain unpaid after the time when payment is due, as a note in bank. (b) To be deferred to some future occasion, as a resolution in a public deliberative body. {To lie to} (Naut.), to stop or delay; especially, to head as near the wind as possible as being the position of greatest safety in a gale; -- said of a ship. Cf. {To bring to}, under {Bring}. {To lie under}, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by. {To lie with}. (a) To lodge or sleep with. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. (c) To belong to; as, it lies with you to make amends.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heavy \Heav"y\, a. Having the heaves.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heavy \Heav"y\, a. [Compar. {Heavier}; superl. {Heaviest}.] [OE. hevi, AS. hefig, fr. hebban to lift, heave; akin to OHG. hebig, hevig, Icel. h[94]figr, h[94]fugr. See {Heave}.] 1. Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught. 2. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. --1 Sam. v. 6. The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. --Shak. Sent hither to impart the heavy news. --Wordsworth. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence. --Shak. 3. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment. The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were. --Chapman. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. --Shak. 4. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. --Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. --Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. --Is. lix. 1. 5. Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like. 6. Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder. But, hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more. --Byron. 7. Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky. 8. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like. 9. Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread. 10. Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food. 11. Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors. 12. With child; pregnant. [R.] {Heavy artillery}. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. {Heavy cavalry}. See under {Cavalry}. {Heavy fire} (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. {Heavy metal} (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heavy \Heav"y\, adv. Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heavy \Heav"y\, v. t. To make heavy. [Obs.] --Wyclif.