What's the difference between hefty and massive?

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.

Massive


Definition:

  • (a.) Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.
  • (a.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (3) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
  • (4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (5) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (6) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
  • (7) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
  • (8) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
  • (9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (10) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  • (11) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
  • (12) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
  • (13) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
  • (14) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
  • (15) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
  • (16) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
  • (17) One patient had massive fibrosis and severe glomerulonephropathy, an association that has also been previously noted.
  • (18) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (19) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
  • (20) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.

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