(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
(superl.) Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with care, grief, pain, disappointment.
(superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book.
(superl.) Strong; violent; forcible; as, a heavy sea, storm, cannonade, and the like.
(superl.) Loud; deep; -- said of sound; as, heavy thunder.
(superl.) Dark with clouds, or ready to rain; gloomy; -- said of the sky.
(superl.) Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey; -- said of earth; as, a heavy road, soil, and the like.
(superl.) Not raised or made light; as, heavy bread.
(superl.) Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.
(superl.) Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.
(superl.) With child; pregnant.
(adv.) Heavily; -- sometimes used in composition; as, heavy-laden.
(v. t.) To make heavy.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
(2) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(3) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(4) The prevalence was also higher in medium and heavy smokers.
(5) These results indicate that the inhibition of CarAc by heavy metals occurs by binding of the sulfhydryl on the enzyme by the metals.
(6) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(7) The combined evidence from immunoglobulin light chain staining and the analysis of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement indicated that the lesions in most patients represented polyclonal proliferations that gave rise to clonal subpopulations.
(8) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(9) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(10) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(11) By applying this method to rat cardiac whole muscle, high-molecular weight proteins, such as myosin heavy chains, are focused on the first-dimensional gels and, in addition, minor components are resolved on the second-dimensional gels, without loss during equilibration with detergent.
(12) To identify cells of different myogenic lineages, myotubes were analyzed for content of fast and slow classes of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms by immunocytochemistry and immunoblotting using specific monoclonal antibodies.
(13) Horses in heavy training may require more energy than they can consume on a conventional diet.
(14) As yet the observations demonstrate that workers exposed in their occupation to heavy metals (cadmium, lead, metalic mercury) and organic solvents should be subjected to special control for detection of renal changes.
(15) Heavy death losses (59%) occurred in adult Mystromys 3--14 days after muscle biopsies were taken from their rear legs.
(16) A comparative analysis of the structure and reactivity of the recombinant monoclonal antibodies showed that the light and heavy Ig-specific chains could form the reactive antibodies when the chains were present in different paratopes of Ig molecules.
(17) Mononucleosomes obtained from labeled cells were fractionated by rate zonal sedimentation through a sucrose gradient in heavy water (Senshu et al.
(18) Previous epitope mapping studies of human factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitor antibodies with heavy chain specificity localized epitopes to the amino-terminal half of the FVIII A2 domain.
(19) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(20) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
Slog
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebuilding the party and restoring its integrity was a hard slog.
(2) If the prime minister does not invite a contest, then the right thing is for the key cabinet names mentioned above to throttle any further coup attempts, to rally round him, shut up about his many weaknesses, and slog on, in the best spirit possible.
(3) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
(4) "In pure movie terms, however, it's also a bit of a slog, with an inordinate amount of exposition and lack of strong forward movement.
(5) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
(6) 4.55am BST Spurs 95-95 Heat - 5:00 remaining OT Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @HunterFelt Hang on...I just had a scrappy midfield slog to write about.
(7) Athletes, many of them not well remunerated by the standards of modern sport, would deliver the career defining moment they had slogged through months of monotonous training for in a moment of heart stopping adrenaline, broadcast to the world in patented hyper-real style.
(8) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
(9) Instead of mounting grand offensives designed to seize more territory from insurgent control, the British mission was focused on the long, slow slog of counterinsurgency – holding on to areas they already had.
(10) In another era, an injury of that nature might have wrecked a footballer’s career and, for Shaw, it has certainly been a long slog to reach this point where he is back in United’s team, playing with distinction once again and possibly about to resume his England career.
(11) The women I met last week had been slogging away all summer.
(12) But for me, any excitement generated by this announcement is tempered by the simple fact that it’s still only 26%, and it was a slog to get here.
(13) He started in business with a £5,000 bank loan in the 1960s, "slogged" through three recessions, and increased the size of his company Caparo from revenues of £14,000 to £625m today.
(14) "In the past it was such a slog fighting against something that people didn't even know existed.
(15) Normality has not yet returned even though we are in the recovery phase, which is going to be a long slog.
(16) Bringing the brand back from the brink was a hard, expensive slog involving buying back 23 licences Burberry had sold to allow other firms to put its check on everything, including disposable nappies for dogs.
(17) And the length also makes this feel like a bit of a slog.
(18) Anything less will be a failure to deliver on the instructions of the British people.” Hammond, who campaigned for remain in the referendum and has been arguing in cabinet against the idea of Britain leaving the EU without a deal, said the result of the general election had shown that the country was “weary after seven years of hard slog repairing the damage of the great recession” .
(19) A side that built its success on teamwork, structure and a rare spirit of togetherness might have to reinvent themselves unless their title defence is to descend into a long old slog.
(20) I was ferociously ambitious and I kept my head down and slogged my guts out.