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Definition: Heavyweight |
HeavyweightAdjective1. Heaviest in a category or of a heavyweight category (more than 175 pounds for boxers); "a heavyweight boxer". Noun1. A wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds. 2. A boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds. 3. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities. 4. A person of exceptional importance and reputation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | Heavyweight adj. [common] High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Esp. used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory utilization, and startup time. EMACS is a heavyweight editor; X is an _extremely_ heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's monstrosity. Oppose `lightweight'. Usage: now borders on techspeak, especially in the compound `heavyweight process'. Source: Jargon File. |
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Synonyms: HeavyweightSynonyms: behemoth (n), colossus (n), giant (n), hulk (n), titan (n), whale (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heavyweight |
| English words defined with "heavyweight": Ali ♦ Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Charles Liston, Corbett ♦ Dempsey ♦ Gene Tunney, Gentleman Jim ♦ Jack Dempsey, James John Corbett, James Joseph Tunney, Jim Corbett, Joe Louis, Joseph Louis Barrow ♦ Liston, Louis ♦ Marciano, Michael Gerald Tyson, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali ♦ Rocco Marciano, Rocky Marciano ♦ Sonny Liston ♦ The Manassa Mauler, Tunney, Tyson ♦ William Harrison Dempsey. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heavyweight": GOLIATH ♦ TANSTAAFL. (references) |
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Screenplays | A real heavyweight water buffalo type who could chew his way through a concrete wall and spit out the other side covered with lime and chalk and look good in doing it. (Where the Buffalo Roam; writing credit: Hunter S. Thompson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing (2000) | |
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 | A fifteen round heavyweight boxing match for the championship of the world. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Spectators, Dempsey - Miske heavyweight championship fight, Labor Day, Sept. 6, 1920, Benton Harbor, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Corona Speedway, start of the medium & heavyweight auto race. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Business | Some - BankBoston Capital, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, and the Tower Fund, to name a few - are backed by heavyweight international financial institutions. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nigeria | The current parties are weak conglomerations of heavyweight personalities rather than mechanisms for interest articulation. (references) |
Travel | Ireland | Because of the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream, medium to heavyweight clothes may be worn most of the year. (references) |
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| "Heavyweight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.31% of the time. "Heavyweight" is used about 435 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.31% | 432 | 13,298 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.69% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 435 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "heavyweight": heavyweight champion ♦ light heavyweight. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "heavyweight": heavyweight-boxing, heavyweight-style. | |
Ending with "heavyweight": light-heavyweight, super-heavyweight. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "heavyweight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | peshë e rëndë, pecogroso, njeri shumë i rëndësishëm. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | способен човек (wiz, wizard), тежка категория, тежка артилерия (heavy metal, siege-artillery), влиятелен човек (influence, influential). (various references) | |
Czech | velièina (celebrity), tìžká váha. (various references) | |
Danish | tung traktor (heavyweight tractor, large tractor). (various references) | |
Dutch | zware trekker (heavyweight tractor, large tractor). (various references) | |
French | poids lourd (heavy goods vehicle, heavy weight). (various references) | |
German | schwergewicht (emphasis, heavy weight, stress). (various references) | |
Greek | βαρύς ελκυστήρας (heavyweight tractor, large tractor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כב" משקל (ponderous, weighty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nehézsúlyú, nehézsúly. (various references) | |
Italian | pugile di peso massimo, peso massimo (heavy weight). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヘ"ー級 (Hebraism). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヘ"ーきゅう. (various references) | |
Manx | trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), fer trome. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eavyweighthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peso-pesado. (various references) | |
Russian | тяжеловес (heavy-weight). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | teška kategorija. (various references) | |
Spanish | pez gordo (big bug, big noise, big pot, bigwig, high-up, nob, sachem), peso pesado, pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty), de peso pesado, de mucho peso (weighty). (various references) | |
Swedish | höjdare (bigwig, higher-up, high-up), tungviktare, tungvikt, tungvikare, storhet (bulk, dimension, extend, grandeur, greatness, magnitude, quantity, size, worthy). (various references) | |
Turkish | nüfuzlu kimse (a big wheel, influential person, potentate), arkası kuvvetli kimse, ağır siklet (heavy), önemli kimse (a big gun, big bug, big gun, big shot, big-timer, bigwig, cordon blue, headliner, important person, it, linchpin, somebody, someone, topliner, worthy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | важкоатлет (heavy, lifter, weight lifter), важкий корабель, важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, laborious, leaden, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heavyweight": heavyweights. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "heavyweight": superheavyweight. (additional references) | |
Words containing "heavyweight": superheavyweights. (additional references) | |
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"Heavyweight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heavywait. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heavyweight" (pronounced he"vēwā't) |
| 3 | -w ā' t | antiquate, actuate, counterweight, deadweight, featherweight, fluctuate, hundredweight, middleweight, paperweight, perpetuate, underweight, welterweight. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-h-i-t-v-w-y" | |
-4 letters: highway, weighty. | |
-5 letters: aweigh, eighth, eighty, gaiety, heathy, heehaw, height, thieve, weight, whitey. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-h-i-t-v-w-y" | |
+1 letter: heavyweights. | |
+5 letters: superheavyweight. | |
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