(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.
Weight
Definition:
(v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
(v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(12) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
(15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.