heavy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɛv.i/    美 /ˈhɛv.i/|/ˈhev.i/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts. slang
    — With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
  2. A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard. slang
    — A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
  3. A prominent figure; a "major player".
    — A collection of topical themes and love songs, featuring session work by women's music "heavies" Holly Near, Mary Watkins, Linda Tillery, Robin Flower, and others.
  4. A newspaper of the quality press. in-plural,slang
    — The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.
  5. A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
    — I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.
  6. A serious theatrical role. archaic,slang
    — Payton boasted his range included "leading parts or genteel heavies, character old men, dialect parts, old women and, on occasion, soubrettes and leading ladies"; however, he was most at ease in light comedy roles.
  7. A member of the heavy cavalry. historical
    — Cavalry […] is divided into mediums, heavies, and light cavalry. The mediums consist of 13 regiments; the heavies of 2 regiments; and the light of 13.
动词 v.
  1. To make heavier. often
    — They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.
  2. To sadden.
  3. To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure. Australia,New-Zealand,informal
    — The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having great weight.
    — Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
  2. Having the heaves.
    — a heavy horse
  3. Having great weight.; Heavyset: overweight.
    — When he was a child he was rather heavy, but today he is impressively fit.
  4. Serious, somber.
    — "We're still in an existential-stakes war with the Pa'anuri, and possibly with our own destructive tendencies." ' "Sorry. That was pretty heavy for someone who just woke up." "Oh, I'm fine. Waking up alive has ALWAYS meant spending the day trying not to be dead."
  5. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
    — heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
  6. Good. UK,dated,slang
    — This film is heavy.
  7. Profound. US,dated
    — The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
  8. 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
  9. Armed. slang
    — Come heavy, or not at all.
  10. Loud, distorted, or intense.
    — Metal is heavier than rock.
  11. Hot and humid.
  12. Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
    — This car is too heavy on gas.
  13. With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
    — Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.
  14. High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
    — Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
  15. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
    — it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch
  16. 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
  17. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
    — a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
  18. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
    — The next day we only made some eight miles, as the road was heavy beyond all belief. It lay through a desert region of country which was ancle-deep ^([sic]) in soda and alkali dust.
  19. Not raised or leavened.
    — heavy bread
  20. Having much body or strength.
  21. With child; pregnant. obsolete
  22. Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
  23. Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
  24. Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
    — The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]
  25. Heavily-armed.
  26. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
  27. Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.; Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
    — In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”
副词 adv.
  1. In a heavy manner; weightily; heavily; gravely.
    — Heavy-laden with their sins, time hung heavy
  2. To a great degree; greatly. colloquial,nonstandard
    — Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.
  3. very India,colloquial

词形变化

heavier comparative heaviest superlative more heavy comparative most heavy superlative heavies plural heavys plural heavies present,singular,third-person heavying participle,present heavied participle,past heavied past more heavy comparative most heavy superlative

词汇关系

近义词
sweer swear
反义词
light
衍生词
as heavy as a dead donkey heavier-than-air heavily heaviness heavisome heavy-armed heavy artillery heavy as a dead donkey heavy-bearded heavy bomber heavy bread heavy breather heavy breathing heavy-browed heavy cavalry heavy chain heavy chemicals heavy client heavy-coated heavy cream heavy cross to bear heavy cruiser heavy date heavy drinker heavy drinking heavy-duty heavy duty heavy-duty vehicle heavy earth heavy element heavy equipment heavyeyed heavy fermion heavy foot heavy-foot heavy-footed heavy-footed moa heavy frigate heavy glass heavy going heavy goods vehicle heavy-handed heavy-handedly heavy-handedness heavy-headed heavy heart heavyhearted heavy-hearted heavy-heartedly heavy-heartedness heavy hitter heavy-hitter heavy hydrogen heavy ice heavy icebreaker heavy industry heavy infantry heavy ion heavyish heavy legs heavy-lidded heavy-lift heavy lift heavy-lifting heavy lifting heavy machine gun heavy machinery heavy man heavy marching order heavy metal heavy metally heavy metal umlaut heavy middleweight heavy mineral heavy mob heavy oil heavy particle heavy petting heavy piece heavy plough heavy rail heavy rock heavy roller heavy-set heavyset heavy sink heavy spar heavy swell heavy tail heavy-tailed heavy tank heavy vehicle heavy-water heavy water heavyweight heavy wet heavy wetter heavy with child hot and heavy hyperheavy jug-heavy Late Heavy Bombardment make heavy going of make heavy weather make heavy weather of nonheavy overheavy semi-heavy water semiheavy water superheavy super-heavy super heavy super-heavy frigate super heavy water super-heavy water time hangs heavy top-heavy top-heavy fraction top-heavy with drink ultraheavy unheavy wee heavy hang heavy heavy-laden brain heavy dog heavy
相关词
heave heft

词源

词源 1
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 *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Equivalent to heave + -y. Related to have.
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).
Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Germanic *habjaną
Proto-West Germanic *habbjan
Old English hebban
Middle English heven
English heave
English -y
English heavy
From heave + -y.
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