Definition of "heavy" in Anglais

adjective

(of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
- Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.
(of a topic) Serious, somber.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
(British, slang, dated) Good.
- This film is heavy.
(dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
- The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
(of a rate of flow) High, great.
- 1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs
(slang) Armed.
- Come heavy, or not at all.
(of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- Metal is heavier than rock.
(of weather) Hot and humid.
(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.
(of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
- a heavy writer or book
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- a heavy road; a heavy soil
Not raised or leavened.
- heavy bread
(of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
(obsolete) With child; pregnant.
(physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.

noun

(slang) 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.
(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
A prominent figure; a "major player".
(journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
(aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
(theater, archaic, slang) A serious theatrical role.
(military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.

verb

(often with "up") To make heavier.
- They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
To sadden.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
- The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
- 2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557, But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.
- 2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421, But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.