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Definition: Heavy Lifting |
Heavy LiftingNoun1. (informal) difficult work; "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Heavy Lifting |
| English words defined with "heavy lifting": Bull wheel ♦ Crane ♦ hoist ♦ lifting device ♦ Sinker bar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heavy lifting": dry fatigue ♦ Heavy Lift Charge, Heavy-Lift Charge ♦ lifting trauma ♦ shear legs, shock loading. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I would but my doctor advised me against heavy lifting! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) The hours are good and there's no heavy lifting. But I happen to be a sonuvabitch whose wife was shot by another sonuvabitch. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Don't do any heavy lifting. (references) | |
Obesity, pregnancy, heavy lifting, and straining to pass stool can cause the intestine to push against the inguinal canal. (references) | ||
If a cystocele is not bothersome, the doctor may only recommend avoiding heavy lifting or straining that could cause the cystocele to worsen. (references) | ||
Women | Ukraine | The Constitution and the Law on Protection of Motherhood and Childhood prohibit the employment of women in jobs that are hazardous to their health, such as those that involved heavy lifting. (references) |
Poland | Although women have access to a number of previously forbidden careers since the Labor Code was modified in 1996, they still are prevented from working underground or in jobs that require heavy lifting. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heavy lifting | 17 |
equipment heavy lifting | 10 |
heavy lifting moving object | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-h-i-i-l-n-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: geniality, genitival, nightlife, vigilante. | |
-4 letters: antilife, atheling, faithing, fanlight, felinity, fileting, finality, finitely, inflight, ligative, natively, thieving, vagility, valeting, venality, vigilant. | |
-5 letters: agility, anility, atingle, elating, ethinyl, eviting, failing, faintly, fatling, felting, filiate, finagle, flavine, flaying, fleying, flighty, fliting, flyting, gahnite, gelatin, genital, hafting, hailing, halting, halving, healing, heating, heavily, heaving, heftily, hefting, heiling, helving, hilting, hyaline, hyalite, infight, inflate, intagli, inveigh, invital, lathing, leafing, leaving, lengthy, levying, lifting, lighten, lignify, lignite, lithify, naively, naivety, niftily, nightie, nightly, nilghai, nylghai, tailing, thegnly, vailing, vealing, veiling, ventail, vialing, vilayet, vintage, yealing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 76 79 4C 69 66 74 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01111001 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a v y   L i f t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0076 0079 004C 0069 0066 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271678891246757286758073 |
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