Heavy vs Feather - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between heavy and feather

is that heavy is a villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts while feather is a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

As verbs the difference between heavy and feather

is that heavy is to make heavier while feather is to cover or furnish with feathers.

As an adjective heavy

is (of a physical object) having great weight or heavy can be having the heaves.

As an adverb heavy

is heavily.

heavy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hevy, .

Adjective

(er)

(of a physical object) Having great weight.

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(of a topic) Serious, somber.

Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.

heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

* Bible, 1 Sam. v. 6

The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.

* Shakespeare

The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.

* Wordsworth

Sent hither to impart the heavy news.

(British, slang, dated) Good.

Profound.

(of a rate of flow) High, great.

(slang) Armed.

(music) Louder, more distorted.

(of weather) Hot and humid.

(of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.

(of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.

Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

The surf was not heavy , and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

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Laden to a great extent.

Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.

* Chapman

The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.

* Shakespeare

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.

a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.

a heavy writer or book

* Shakespeare

whilst the heavy ploughman snores

* Dryden

a heavy , dull, degenerate mind

* Bible, Is. lix. 1

Neither [is] his ear heavy , that it cannot hear.

Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.

a heavy''' road; a '''heavy soil

Not raised or leavened.

heavy bread

Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.

(obsolete) With child; pregnant.

Synonyms

* sweer/swear

Derived terms

(heavy) * heavily * heaviness * heavy-armed * heavy artillery * heavy chain * heavy-coated * heavy cream * heavy drinker * heavy-duty * heavy-footed * heavy goods * heavy-handed * heavyhead * heavy-headed * heavy heart * heavy-hearted * heavy hitter * heavy hydrogen * heavy industry * heavy ion * heavyish * heavy-laden * heavy-lift * heavy lifting * heavy metal * heavy oil * heavy particle * heavy roller * heavy sea * heavy-set/heavyset * heavy sink * heavy spar * heavy tail * heavy water * heavyweight * heavy wet * HGV * hot and heavy * semi-heavy * top-heavy

Adverb

(en adverb)

heavily

heavy laden with their sins

(India, colloquial) very

Noun

(en-noun)

A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.

With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.

(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.

A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.

(aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.

The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.

Verb

To make heavier.

To sadden.

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.

The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

* 1985 , Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives Weekly Hansard , Issue 11, Part 1, page 1570,

the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.

* 2001 , Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible , Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,

But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone?s tapped. Well, he won?t find anything.

* 2005 , David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005 , Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,

But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.

Etymology 2

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having the heaves.

a heavy horse

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words

feather

English

(wikipedia feather)

Alternative forms

* fether

Noun

(en noun)

A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

* 1873 , W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly , volume IV, page 687

Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.

* 1914 , , The Beasts of Tarzan , chapter V

Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers , adding to their wild, fierce appearance.

* 2000 , C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care? , page 362

Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers' to line the nest, but ' feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.

Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").

* Shakespeare

I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.

One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as (plug and feather) or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.

(Knight)

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

Synonyms

* (horse hair) feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

Antonyms

* (horse hair at rear of lower legs) spats

Derived terms

{{der3, afterfeather , birds of a feather , contour feather , featherback , featherbed , featherbedding , featherbrain , feather-brained , featherdown , feather duster , featherhead , featherily , featheriness , feathering float , feathering screw , feathering strip , feathering wheel , feather in one's cap , feather in one's hat , featherless , featherlight , featherlike , feather pen , feathertail , featherweight , featherwood , feather wool , featherwork , feathery , fine feathers make fine birds , flight feather , horsefeathers , light as a feather}}

Verb

(en verb)

To cover or furnish with feathers.

* L'Estrange

An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.

To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

The stylist feathered my hair.

(ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies.

After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.

(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.

(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

* Sir Walter Scott

A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.

To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

* Loveday

The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

* Francis Bacon

They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.

(Dryden)

To tread, as a cock.

(Dryden)

Derived terms

* feathered * feather one's nest * feather one's own nest * tar and feather

References

* Horse Glossary * Horses Glossary * Cowboy Dictionary] – [http://www.cowboyway.com/Dictionary/Letter-F.htm Cowboy F: Feather

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