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HeavyAdjective1. Of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture". 2. Unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic". 3. Of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries". 4. Having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream". 5. Wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark". 6. Marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids". 7. Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it. 8. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated". 9. Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky". 10. : of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas". 11. : (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water". 12. : (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'". 13. : permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom". 14. : made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat". 15. : of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker". 16. : prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor". 17. : used of syllables. 18. : full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice". 19. : of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference". 20. : slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn". 21. : large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery". 22. : dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding". 23. : sharply inclined; "a heavy grade". 24. : full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes". 25. : requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading". 26. : characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace". 27. : lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation". 28. : (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep". 29. : in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child". Adverb1. Slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands". Noun1. An actor who plays villainous roles. 2. A serious (or tragic) role in a play. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heavy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Heavy \Heav"y\, adjective. [Comparative Heavier; superlative Heaviest.]. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Unpleasant character of a wine with a very high alcohol content, and rich in colour and extract. Source: European Union. (references) |
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A heavy bomber is a bomber aircraft of the largest size, and typically longest ranges. The term was used primarily prior to and during World War II, when engine power was so scarce that designs had to be carefully tailored to their missions. The heavy bomber was generally considered to be any design that delivered 8,000lbs of bombs or more on distant targets, with medium bombers having loads of 4,000-8,000lbs, and light bombers 2,000-4,000lbs. These distinctions were already disappearing by the middle of WWII, when the average fighter aircraft could now carry a 2,000lb load and the "light" designs had now largely taken over the missions formerly filled by mediums.After the war the term saw some limited use to describe bombers dedicated to the strategic role, but soon these were being referred to as strategic bombers, while every other design became a tactical bomber. The only aircraft in the world that could still be considered heavy bombers would be the B-52 and, to a lesser degree, B-1. The general utility of a manned heavy bomber has been greatly degraded with the introduction of more accurate munitions such as smart bombs, but the B-52 continues to fill a role when the target requires a massive number of bombs to be dropped. It is significant that no other air force fields a heavy bomber however.
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Heavy Metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms, highly amplified guitars, and often dark thematic elements.
Heavy metal is an evolutionary product of pop, blues and classical music. Its first wave, between 1967 and 1974, was a product of pop and blues, while the classical element came to the fore in the later 1970s. By approximately 1990 most heavy metal had evolved into other hard rock genres, notably grunge.
The origin of the term heavy metal is uncertain. According to one version, it was coined by a critic for Rolling Stone Magazine, who in 1967 said that the music of Jimi Hendrix was "like heavy metal falling from the sky". Others references have been the words "heavy metal thunder" in the 1968 Steppenwolf song "Born to be Wild", or the William S. Burroughs story "The Heavy Metal Kid". The word "heavy" (meaning serious or profound) had entered beatnik/counterculture slang some time earlier, and references to "heavy music" -- typically slower, more amplified variations of standard pop fare -- were already common; indeed, Iron Butterfly's 1968 debut album was entitled Heavy. The fact that Led Zeppelin (whose moniker came partly in reference to Keith Moon's jest that they would "go over like a lead balloon) incorporated a heavy metal into its name may have sealed the usage of the term.
Regardless of its origin, heavy metal may have been used as a jibe initially but was quickly adopted by its adherents. Other, already-established bands, such as Deep Purple, who had origins in pop or progressive rock, immediately took on the heavy metal mantle, adding distortion and additional amplification in a more aggressive approach.
The explosion of guitar virtuosity founded in the leadership of pioneer Jimi Hendrix a music generation earlier was ushered to the fore by Eddie Van Halen, and many consider his 1978 solo appropriately called Eruption as the significant new dawn in heavy metal history. Ritchie Blackmore (formerly of Deep Purple), Randy Rhodes (w/ pioneer Ozzy Osbourne) and Yngwie Malmsteen went on to solidify this explosion of virtuoso guitar work. All of a sudden, classical guitars, even nylon-stringed guitars, were commonplace at heavy metal concerts, and classical icons such as Liona Boyd became associated with the heavy metal stars as peers in a newly diverse guitar fraternity where conservative and aggressive guitarists could come together to "trade licks" (recently MP3.com featured a collection of Ms. Boyd's music which featured her collaboration with such rock stars as Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and legend Eric Clapton, as further evidence of the open associations that cross musical genre divisions among the respective leaders).
This explosion would cool down in the music of Ronnie James Dio (who himself had a tenure at lead vocals with the legendary Black Sabbath) and continue to settle towards Iron Maiden, who may be the final and complete consummation of "pure" heavy metal in the lineage of the "grandfathers" - Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. After Maiden, metal would push the limits of aggressive loudness in thrash metal, speed metal, black metal and death metal, and return full circle through the pop vanity of the L.A. hair metal lead by Motley Crue to the poppish Bon Jovi. Grunge evolved out of Seattle in the work of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. During the 1980s, hair metal dominated the music charts in much of the world, and superstars like Def Leppard and Guns n' Roses helped lead the way. While their music has endured as representative of a particular view, time and place, hair metal is not typically considered a particularly pure or well-executed form of metal. Grunge music appeared as a popularized endpoint of the punk rock-influenced alternative rock music of the 1990 which fought any mainstream influence (seen as "selling out")articularly reacted against overly-aggressive and increasingly formulaic hair metal bands from Ratt to Extreme.
Cover versions of classic rock songs would become a standard part of many metal bands' repertoire. Notable is Mötley Crüe's version of "Helter Skelter" which very strongly brings to the fore the heavy metal undertones that the Beatles original song implied but failed to explore in their time.
An important element to be remembered is that heavy metal is considered by many to be primarily white, in opposition to the blues-based rock which derives from African-American music. This only means that the majority of the audience and the players are white. There are, however, several examples of bands that have broken this mold and the audiences can be quite mixed -- Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott and Living Colour are good examples, though many point out that these two are the only two examples of black heavy metal musicians to achieve significant, long-term success, and this defense of heavy metal is then denigrated as being a presentation of a few token exceptions, rather than a refutation of the rule.
If the audio/thematic components of heavy metal are predominantly blues-influenced reality, then the visual component is predominantly pop-influenced fantasy. The themes of darkness, evil, power, and apocalypse are fantastic language components for addressing the reality of life's problems. Further, in reaction to the "peace and love" hippie culture of the 1960s, heavy metal developed as a counterculture, where light is supplanted by darkness, and the happy ending of pop is replaced by the naked reality that things don't always work out in this world. While fans claim that the medium of darkness is not the message, critics have accused the genre of glorifying the negative aspects of reality.
Heavy metal themes are more grave than fluffy pop from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, focusing on war, nuclear annihilation, environmental issues, political and religious propaganda. Black Sabbath's "War Pigs", Ozzy Osbourne's "Killer of Giants" are examples serious contributions to the discussion of the state of affairs. The commentary on reality sometimes tends to become over-simplified because the fantastic poetic vocabulary of heavy metal deals primarily with very clear dichotomies of light and dark, hope and despair, good and evil, which don't make much room for complex shades of gray.
As heavy metal gave in to the dark, hopeless despair of reality, it evolved into heavier, more brooding forms like thrash metal and death metal.
Some might differentiate by observing that pure heavy metal doesn't generally sing about love, while many hair metal songs are focused on love. In some respects, one might argue that the hair metal scene of the 80s was the logical endpoint of the glitter or glam rock movement of the 70s; the visual similarities between the two, with the make-up and fanciful costumes, makes the argument more compelling. Glitter rock, however, was lyrically focused on sexual ambiguity, free expression and individuality, while hair metal was unambiguously macho and heterosexual, with little room for diversity of political or social opinions. Ultimately, "pure" heavy metal would position itself at the periphery of pop culture, never quite at center, and metal denizens contend that the move towards the center was a commercialism that compromised both the artistic integrity of the form and the opportunity for messages to be taken seriously.
The Encarta encyclopedia claims that "when a text was associated with the music, Bach could write musical equivalents of verbal ideas". As heavy metal uses apocalyptic themes and images of power and darkness, the ability to translate verbal ideas into musical ideas that successfully convey the ideas of the words is critical to heavy metal authenticity and credibility. An excellent example of this is the theme album Powerslave, by Iron Maiden. The cover is of a dramatic Egyptian pyramid scene, and many of the songs on the album have subject matter that requires a sound suggestive of life and death, including a song entitled "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The American band Grand Funk Railroad epitomised early heavy metal, and set an alternative benchmark in which the volume of the music was seen as the important factor rather than its musical qualities; though this influence is often denigrated as pointless extravagance, it has proven enormously influential and still dominates many people's perceptions of the genre.
Cultural Impact
Heavy metal's bombastic excesses, exemplified by hair metal, have been parodied numerous times, most famously in the movie This Is Spinal Tap. However, see also the phenomenon of the heavy metal umlaut.
Douglas Adams neatly satirised this propensity for excessive volume in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy with the fictional rock band Disaster Area - creators of the loudest sound in the known universe. It should be noted however, that Adams was satirising Pink Floyd stage shows specifically - rather than metal in general.
Glitter rock, a short-lived era in the mid-1970s, is the extreme exploration of the fantasy-side of the reality-fantasy parents of heavy metal. Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Kiss are among the more popular standard examples of this sub-genre.
Punk rock is a related form which arose from some of the pioneers, including The Stooges, Blue Cheer, Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls and The Sex Pistols exploring the politically-charged reality of darkness. Though punk rock and heavy metal began as linked genres of disaffected youth, punk quickly diverged as a reaction against the perceived bombastic arena rock of 1970s heavy metal bands. Heavy metal also had an important influence on grunge which, like punk, was partly a reaction to the slickness and corporate nature of much rock music.
In the early 80s the New Wave of British Heavy Metal made metal music very popular (especially in Europe) with bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Motörhead. This period is often considered the pinnacle of the heavy metal form with earlier metal symbolizing the upward slope, and subsequent derivative sub-genres dissolving into distant relatives of the original form. Sub-genres of heavy metal are numerous, though crossovers from other heavy metal and non-metal genres are frequent:
Heavy metal dance styles:
- Thrash metal - a very aggressive and rhythm-based style of metal that includes Slayer, Overkill and early Metallica and Megadeth.
- Power metal - clean vocals and hymn-like choruse, while the lyrics are often based on fantasy or science fiction themes. The most famous bands include Helloween, Blind Guardian and Hammerfall, all of them continental European, and Iced Earth coming from the US.
- Death metal - extreme music with low-pitched guitars and growling vocals. There is no common theme in the lyrics, they range from splatter (Cannibal Corpse) and war (Bolt Thrower) to Christian motives (Mortification). Besides the mentioned, Death, Morbid Angel and Entombed are other important bands.
- Black metal - a precise definition for this style is very hard to give. One approach is strictly based on the lyrics, which are Satanic and otherwise occult. Bands include Mayhem, Darkthrone and Venom.
- Nu metal - newest form of heavy metal, usually features down tuned guitars (7 string guitars are common), sampling artists/DJs and angst-ridden, hip hop-influenced vocals of bands like Korn, Fear Factory, Papa Roach, Staind, Skid Row, Orgy, System of a Down, Drowning Pool and Limp Bizkit.
- Goth metal - fusion of the bleak, icy atmospherics of goth rock with the loud guitars and aggression of heavy metal, finding the middle ground between the two styles in a melodramatic sense of theater and lyrical obsessions with religion and horror. Bands include Theatre of Tragedy, Paradise Lost, Lacrimosa and My Dying Bride.
- Doom metal - inspired largely by the lumbering dirges and stoned, paranoid darkness of Black Sabbath, and one of the very few heavy metal subgenres to prize feel and mood more than flashy technique, doom metal bands include Candlemass, Cathedral and Anathema.
- Epic Metal - lying between doom metal and classical American heavy metal with a balance between slow and solemn hymns and the occasional outburst into powerful mid-tempos, epic metal includes epic and some fantasy; they're not the only themes, however, and lighter elements like bikes, women, and a healthy amount of self-apology are just as frequent. Bands include (early) Manowar_(band), (early) Virgin Steele, Cirith Ungol, Omen and Medieval Steel from the US, some Bathory (the Viking themed albums) from Sweden and more recently DoomSword from Italy.
- Neo-classical metal - the traditional toolbox of metal song-writing is used in neo-classical metal, but with a twist: all of it takes place in a structure that is heavily influenced by baroque music. The chord progressions, arpeggios, broken chords, and speedy scale runs of neo-classical metal are borrowed for the most part from Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Niccolo Paganini. Although Yngwie J. Malmsteen is the most well-known proponent of this branch of metal, classical elements used in heavy metal and hard rock date back to Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Eddie Van Halen's innovations in the late 1970s.
- Speed metal - focusing on instrumental virtuosity and featuring riffs and solos played extremely fast, speed metal is exemplified by the twin lead guitars of Judas Priest and Motörhead.
- Progressive metal - combining elements of progressive rock and heavy metal, progressive metal bands include Dream Theater, Symphony X, Stratovarius and DragonForce.
- Glam metal - frequently if derisively known as hair metal, glam focused on stage craft and appearance (leather, spandex, long hair and makeup being very common), and generally used a lot of "feel good" rhythms and catchy lyrics. Bands include Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Skid Row, Poison, Dokken, Greg Howe, Vixen, and Cinderella among many others.
- Christian metal - including a wide range of styles based on many of the genres above but with explicitly Christian lyrics (rather than anti-Christian or merely explicit lyrics).
- Stoner metal - including heavy, sometimes slow and sludgily distorted riffs and the obvious influence of psychedelic music, creating a sound that is strongly reminiscent of the 1970s metal of Black Sabbath, Budgie, and similar bands. Important bands include Cathedral, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, and Monster Magnet.
- Industrial Metal - Fusion of electronic dance music, Techno, and heavy, distorted guitars. Synthesizers and drum machines are heavily used in this sub-genre. Nine Inch Nails, Fear Factory and Rammstein are but a few of the key artists of this genre.
- Hardcore / Metalcore - Raw, charged-up music with influences from Thrash, Death Metal and Hardcore punk. Key artists of this genre are Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Nothingface and Machinehead.
- Folk metal - not many examples of this genre which comprises of a mix between folk melodies/instruments with the charactersistic powercords of Metal. Skyclad is probably the most known band in this genre. A related genre has evolved in Germany, fusing modern metal and medieval (German) music. Proponents of this genre include Subway to Sally and In Extremo, but they are not well-known outside Central Europe because of their singing in German.
- Viking metal
- Hard rock
- Alternative metal
- True metal - This term was coined in the 1990s, when fusions of metal and techno or metal and hiphop were dominating the charts, and its original use was probably to distinguish between such fusions and the more traditional metal from the 1980s. It is not exactly clear what true metal means - it seems to hover somwhere between epic metal power metal. The term is also misleading because it seems to imply that all other metal genres are "false".
Nicknames for fans of the Heavy metal genre:
- Headbanging
- Moshing
- Crowd surfing
- Stage diving
- Headbanger
- Metaller
- Metalhead
- Hard rocker
- Rocker
See also:
- List of heavy metal musicians
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The heavy metals are a group of elements between copper and mercury on the periodic table of the elements -- having atomic weights between 63.546 and 200.590 and specific gravities greater than 4.0. Living organisms require trace amounts of some heavy metals, including cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, strontium, and zinc, but excessive levels can be detrimental to the organism.
In medical usage, the definition is considerably looser, and "heavy metal poisoning" can include excessive amounts of manganese, aluminum, or beryllium as well as the true heavy metals.
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, released in 1968, was a seventeen minute song by Iron Butterfly, released on an album that is known by the name of this song.The song features a memorable guitar and bass riff, and sustains this riff for almost the entire length of the song. The riff is used as the basis for extended keyboard and guitar solos, which are interrupted in the middle by an extended drum solo, one of the first such solos on a rock record.
The lyrics are simple, and heard only at the beginning and the end. The song title was originally "In the Garden of Eden", but in the course of rehearsing and recording singer Doug Ingle slurred the words to the nonsense phrase of the title.
The song is significant in rock history because, together with Blue Cheer and Steppenwolf, it marks the point when psychedelic music produced heavy metal. Later 1970s heavy metal and progressive rock acts like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin owe much of their sound, and even more of their live acts, to this recording.
Track Listing from the Album
Side A
Side B
- Most Anything You Want
- Flowers And Beads
- My Mirage
- Termination
- Are You Happy?
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| HE | English | Heavy enamelled | Electrical Engineering, Metallurgy |
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Synonyms: HeavySynonyms: accented (adj), arduous (adj), backbreaking (adj), big(a) (adj), big(p) (adj), clayey (adj), cloggy (adj), dense (adj), enceinte (adj), expectant (adj), fleshy (adj), grave (adj), gravid (adj), great(p) (adj), grievous (adj), grueling (adj), gruelling (adj), hard (adj), hard(a) (adj), heavy(a) (adj), heavy(p) (adj), impenetrable (adj), labored (adj), laborious (adj), laboured (adj), labourious (adj), large(p) (adj), leaden (adj), lowering (adj), lumbering (adj), overweight (adj), ponderous (adj), profound (adj), punishing (adj), sonorous (adj), sound (adj), strong (adj), sullen (adj), thick (adj), threatening (adj), toilsome (adj), wakeless (adj), weighed down (adj), weighty (adj), with child(p) (adj), heavily (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: light (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan,mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier; Foot Guards, Horse Guards. |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Adjective: great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge; (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith. | |
Imbecility Folly | Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous. |
Improbability | Adjective: improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation; wild, far out, out of sight, outtasight, heavy. |
Inactivity | Sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic, lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened. |
Indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish; exanimate, soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog. | |
Physical Inertness | Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential. |
Vulgarity | Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heavy |
| English words defined with "heavy": Heavy artillery, Heavy glass, heavy lifting, Heavy metals. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heavy": Heavy Chain Disease, heavy cosmic-ray primaries, heavy crop, Heavy Lift, Heavy Lift Charge, Heavy Lift Vessel, Heavy Metal Poisoning, Nervous System, heavy rapping hammer, Heavy water moderated reactor ♦ TOP HEAVY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "heavy": tungsten. (references) |
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Screenplays | You could slooshy the screams and moans very realistic, and you could even get the heavy breathing and panting of the tolchocking malchicks at the same time (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Warning: contents may cause drowsiness; do not drive or operate heavy machinery (The 56th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams) Pretty heavy, hey dude (Bachelor Party; writing credit: Bob Israel; Neal Israel) Heavy Metal meets House and Garden (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler) What I need right now is heavy metal music, hard drinkin I wanna play the field Of dicks (Haggard; writing credit: Brandon Dicamillo; Hoofbite) | |
Lyrics | But the air is so heavy and dry (Cruel Summer; performing artist: Bananarama) Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) In my life I've been hammered by some heavy blows (Ain't Nothing 'Bout You; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn) And heavy breathing (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) For the crown you've placed upon my head feels too heavy now (Hunter; performing artist: Dido) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heavy Metal Comedy (2002) The Heavy Parade (1926) Heavy Seas (1923) Against Heavy Odds (1914) Heavy Gymnastics (1901) | |
Song Titles | He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (performing artist: The Hollies) | |
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 | Schematic diagram of chromosomes 8, 2, 14, and 22 which are involved in the translocations (usually 8;14, less frequently 8;22 or 2;8) which occur in Burkitt's Lymphoma. The break points for these translocations are identified by the banding regions (q24, p13, q32 and q11). These break points on chromosomes 2, 14, and 22 correspond to chromosomal regions to which have been mapped the kappa, heavy chain and lambda constant region genes respectively. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | The lungs are enlarged, heavy, uniformly firm, and yellow-white in color. 70% of all pregnant women with untreated primary syphilis may transmit the infection to their fetuses. Credit: CDC. |
 | Discoloration of air due to heavy air pollution. Credit: CDC. |  | Attempting to ford a wash after a heavy rain Reconnaissance party of Charles Schanck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Woods Hole during 1938 hurricane Heavy surf breaking over SE side of Quadrangular dock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Oil globules mixed with heavy pollen from surrounding vegetation following the April 7th Swanson Creek oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | "The Towing Steamer Koonya as Seen from the Nimrod in a heavy sea." In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 52. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The National Science Foundation, Research Ice Breaker, NATHANIEL B. PALMER, in "heavy" sea ice offshore of Coleman Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Men hauling in beach seine heavy with Columbia River salmon. F&WL 12,495. Credit: Fisheries. |  | The record sunfish, Santa Catalina Island, too heavy to weigh; estimated at 2,500 pounds. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207, Plate V. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Heavy rain at sunset" by Paula Ikonen Commentary: "Taken from my balcony during a thurderstorm. No Photoshop used. Image is a bit blurred though I used a tripod. ." | "Heavy Sky Tuscany" by Liam Heffernan Commentary: "Heavy Sky in Tuscany." |
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 | A heavy Romantic era work quite reminiscent of a Chopin composition. | | Heavy reverb percussion with simple guitar melody. |
| Consistent rhythmic piece heavy with synthesizer melodies. | | Heavy foreboding style typical of a military pursuit for a movie soundtrack. |
| Medium-tempo dance piece with a heavy backbeat. | | A minor melody on guitar with heavy low tones sporadically played. |
| Heavy backbeat influenced synthesized funk from early 1980's. | | Heavy drums with repetitive digital melody and sustained synthesized string chords. |
| Keyboard melody with heavy synthesizer-processed drums in a medium tempo. | | Organ music with heavy breathing. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexandre Dumas | The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three. |
Anne Bradstreet | Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. |
Joseph Addison | No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. |
Max Muller | No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. |
Robert Burns | Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. |
Thomas p Kempis | Love makes everything that is heavy light. |
Voltaire | What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. |
William Wordsworth | That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The people generally ill treated, and contrary to right, will be ready upon any occasion to ease themselves of a burden that sits heavy upon them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | All or part of the coal tar may, at the option of the French Government, be replaced by corresponding quantities of products of distillation, such as light oils, heavy oils, anthracene, napthalene or pitch 9. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities - unsought but not recoiled from - the President has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah--to "undo the heavy burdens [and] let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1940) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | Where an interrogation is conducted without the presence of an attorney and a statement is taken, a heavy burden rests on the Government to demonstrate that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Perry says that colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The money of this island is heavy, gentlemen, but it costs little, as you may guess |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | But before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy s |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hester next gathered up the heavy tresses of her hair, and confined them beneath her cap. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When the alcove was occupied, a heavy serge curtain was drawn in the oratory, concealing the altar |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They were waiting for the door to open and for the servants to come in, holding the big dishes covered with their heavy metal covers |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And suddenly he jarred as though under a heavy blow |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He could easily conceive that a Houyhnhnm grew weak and heavy a few days before his death, or by some accident might hurt a limb |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Don't do any heavy lifting. (references) | |
AD puts a heavy economic burden on society. (references) | ||
Some women have short times of heavy bleeding. (references) | ||
Business | German trade shows attract heavy attention from worldwide buyers. (references) | |
For hauling dirty, bulky or heavy stuff, Belgians prefer using trailers. (references) | ||
In the category of heavy commercial vehicles, sales decreased by 2.1 percent. (references) | ||
Children | Kenya | These are a heavy burden on most families. (references) |
Philippines | Most of the children were in villages in Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, and Tawi-Tawi provinces, the scene of heavy insurgent combat. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | Social facilities for persons with mental disabilities were strained severely, because budgets have fallen and workloads remained heavy. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iran | Others continued to publish, but only with heavy self-censorship. (references) |
Switzerland | Fearing a heavy administrative and enforcement workload, the city appealed to the Supreme Court. (references) | |
Iran | Citizens may travel to any part of the country, although there have been restrictions on travel to Kurdish areas during times of occasional heavy fighting. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | Historically, Jamaican emigration has been heavy. (references) |
Colombia | Movement from rural to urban areas has been heavy. (references) | |
Cyprus | First phase is currently running on heavy fuel oil. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The police said that they came under heavy fire from gunmen. (references) |
Somalia | Heavy rains in 1997 revealed numerous mass graves in the Hargeisa area. (references) | |
Thailand | They also used heavy leg irons as a means of controlling and punishing prisoners. (references) | |
Minorities | Lebanon | Most Palestinian refugees live in overpopulated camps that have suffered repeated heavy damage as a result of fighting. (references) |
Canada | Provincial authorities said that the children showed signs of heavy corporal punishment; church practices advocated the use of belts and sticks in disciplining children. (references) | |
Ghana | Security forces in the town, including the police and a platoon of soldiers, initially were overwhelmed by the scale of the violence, which included heavy exchanges of automatic weapons fire between members of the two ethnic groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | The pace of reform in heavy industry has been even slower. (references) |
INDONESIA | However, the financial crisis put a heavy burden on government finances. (references) | |
Guinea-Bissau | The country remained burdened by heavy external debt and massive underemployment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Egypt | At a few locations, the security presence was so heavy as to inhibit voters' access to the polls. (references) |
Haiti | Violence again escalated prior to the November 2000 presidential elections, which took place amidst heavy police security and were characterized by low turnout--credible accounts varied from 5 percent to 20 percent. (references) | |
Trade | Costa Rica | Violations of documentation laws carry heavy fines. (references) |
Travel | South Africa | Men tend to favor medium or heavy woolen suits for year-round wear. (references) |
Poland | Pick pocketing, hotel break-ins and car theft are common, particularly in areas of heavy tourist activity. (references) | |
France | Today, many French executives put less emphasis on long, heavy business lunches for reasons of health and time. (references) | |
Women | Malaysia | Some rapists receive heavy punishments, including caning, but women's groups complain that some rapists receive inadequate punishments. (references) |
Mexico | Employers are required to provide a pregnant woman with full pay, are prohibited from dismissing her, and must remove her from heavy or dangerous work or exposure to toxic substances. (references) | |
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) | |
Worker Rights | Syria | Children are not allowed to lift, carry, or drag heavy objects. (references) |
China | His public appearances were marked by a heavy security presence. (references) | |
China | He now lives with his family under heavy guard in his residence near the monastery. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Having to pay such a heavy price to make complete victory certain, America will never become a party to any plan for partial victory. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Measures have been already taken for furnishing them with heavy cannon for the service of such land batteries as may make a part of their defense against armed vessels approaching them. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Her products, manufactures, and tonnage may be subjected to heavy duties in our ports, or all commercial intercourse with her may be suspended. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | If we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout the world will rock to its foundations, and therefore our responsibility is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it is to-day, and to the generations yet unborn. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | This is especially true when we are face to face with a heavy deficit. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | For the road has been long, the burden heavy, and the pace consistently urgent. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | But the Nation has many commitments and responsibilities which make heavy demands upon our total resources. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are prepositioning more heavy equipment in Europe to help us cope with attacks with little warning, and greatly strengthening our airlift and sealift capabilities. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various refe | ||
