heavy

Significado

Adj

1. Having great weight.
2. Serious, somber.
3. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
4. (slang) Good.
5. Profound.
6. High, great.
7. (slang) Armed.
8. Loud, distorted, or intense.
9. Hot and humid.
10. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
11. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
12. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
13. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
14. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
15. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
16. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
17. Not raised or leavened.
18. Having much body or strength.
19. (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
20. Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
21. Having high viscosity.
22. Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
23. Heavily-armed.
24. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
25. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.

Adv

1. In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
2. (colloquial) To a great degree; greatly.
3. (colloquial) very

Noun

1. (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
2. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
3. A prominent figure; a "major player".
4. (slang) A newspaper of the quality press.
5. A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
6. (slang) A serious theatrical role.
7. A member of the heavy cavalry.

Verb

1. To make heavier.
2. To sadden.
3. (informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhɛv.i/

Etimología

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).

Oraciones

Their work made heavy use of improvised dialogue .

Su trabajo hizo un gran uso del diálogo improvisado.

The slab was hewn from heavy blocks of slate .

La losa estaba tallada de pesados ​​bloques de pizarra.