What's the difference between brawny and hefty?

Brawny


Definition:

  • (a.) Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The case of an 8.5-year-old girl is reported, in which an oral infection and a clinically observed motility resulted in a communication with the submandibular space; a significant hard, brawny edema of her right submandibular area resulted.
  • (2) A preserved normal choroidal vascular pattern over an elevated subretinal mass may be indicative of posterior brawny scleritis.
  • (3) In contrast to what happens after DEC, it was not accompanied by any marked wave of microfilaraemia or microfilaruria, nor by the appearance of a papular rash, although brawny oedema of the skin sometimes developed.
  • (4) We therefore emphasized clinical symptoms and signs of brawny scleritis: inflammation, tenderness or pain of the globe, history of collagen vascular disease, proptosis, bilaterality, and retinal and choroidal detachment.
  • (5) Those clever flicks that manage to look brawny and balletic all at once.
  • (6) Five cases are presented of hard, brawny, edema of the dorsum of the hand.
  • (7) Once brawny edema and hyperpigmentation occur, ulceration develops without additional deterioration of venous hemodynamics.
  • (8) A chronic brawny edema developed in the shoulder and arm ipsilateral to the site of a previous mastectomy in a 68-year-old woman.
  • (9) Television host and opposition activist Ksenia Sobchak compared him to Batman for his reputation of fighting evildoers and called him a "strong Russian guy" in reference to his brawny physique and homespun charm.
  • (10) He could drift effortlessly between Mad Man and Brawny Man; he lived his entire life on the same Central Valley farm our family has owned since the Gold Rush of 1848.
  • (11) The physical examination is often nondiagnostic, but may include brawny edema of the neck and chest.
  • (12) This experience and other previous reports indicate the high incidence of diagnostic confusion regarding brawny scleritis.
  • (13) A 1-year-old immunodeficient boy developed brawny edema of the left foot.
  • (14) Characteristic symptoms are a brawny swelling of the lids, marked chemosis, coffee-coloured discharge, hypopyon, ring abscess of the cornea, formation of gas bubbles in the anterior chamber, rise of intraocular tension and early amaurosis.
  • (15) However, once extremities develop brawny edema or hyperpigmentation, further deterioration of limb hemodynamics does not occur.
  • (16) We studied four patients with posterior brawny scleritis.
  • (17) Brawny oedema of the right upper quadrant of the body developed rapidly after the duct ligation and right pleurectomy.
  • (18) The word he eventually settles on is "moody", but I'd offer "melancholy", not an emotion that the Black Keys' rootsy, brawny grooves previously gave much credence to.
  • (19) Life-long episodic brawny and non-itchy swelling of the extremities, face and trunk, with episodic abdominal pain and familial occurrence are the typical features.
  • (20) However, cutaneous reactions were relatively less frequent while brawny oedema of the limbs and inguinal gland pain were important.

Hefty


Definition:

  • (a.) Moderately heavy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
  • (2) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
  • (3) She is now suing the French statesman in a civil court, which could result in a hefty damages award.
  • (4) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
  • (5) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
  • (6) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
  • (7) Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
  • (8) In a hard-hitting report on the countries facing macroeconomic imbalances, such as overvalued housing markets or hefty government debts, the European commission identified a total of 13 member states – including France, the Netherlands and Belgium – which it said should take urgent action to restore the health of their economies.
  • (9) Nine months later, the details of the scheme are yet to be agreed and Lloyds is determined to escape paying a hefty premium for the government to insure its toxic assets because it believes its losses have peaked.
  • (10) Pick it up and it is a surprisingly hefty bit of kit.
  • (11) A ustralians are routinely being told that hefty mining taxes would hinder the country’s largest exports of coal and iron ore.
  • (12) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
  • (13) Averaged projections of the complex resemble those found for the purified PSI reaction centre after reconstitution (Ford, R.C, Hefti, A. and Engel, A.
  • (14) Linguistic trespassers will be prosecuted with a hefty fine.
  • (15) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (16) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
  • (17) It was certainly his best moment for the north London club after he missed a large portion of last season through injury and failed to live up to his hefty transfer fee.
  • (18) In animals kept on a diet with caseine the proportion of the heterohemagglutinines production and of specific antibodies had a reciprocal character, which manifested itself in a hefty depression of the agglutinines biosynthesis to sheep erythrocytes with an accruing titres of antidiphtherial antibodies.
  • (19) The organisers said the next generation would be more evenly split as a hefty 70% of the "ones to watch" (with just three to five years experience) were women.
  • (20) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.

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