Heavy vs Tumble - What's the difference?
heavy | tumble |
(of a physical object) Having great weight.
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(of a topic) Serious, somber.
Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
* Bible, 1 Sam. v. 6
* Shakespeare
* Wordsworth
(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
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Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
* Chapman
* Shakespeare
Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* Bible, Is. lix. 1
Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
Not raised or leavened.
Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.
(obsolete) With child; pregnant.
A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
(slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
(aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.
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.
* 1985 , Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives Weekly Hansard , Issue 11, Part 1,
* 2001 , Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible , Spinifex Press, Australia,
* 2005 , David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005 , Volume 3: 1901-2005,
A fall.
An act of sexual intercourse.
* John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
* 1979 , Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
(lb) To fall end over end.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
:(Rowe)
To roll over and over.
*1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
*:The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
(lb) To have sexual intercourse.
(lb) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
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As nouns the difference between heavy and tumble
is that heavy is a villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts while tumble is a fall.As verbs the difference between heavy and tumble
is that heavy is to make heavier while tumble is (lb) to fall end over end.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)- heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.
- The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod.
- The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.
- Sent hither to impart the heavy news.
- The surf was not heavy , and there was no undertow, so we made shore easily, effecting an equally easy landing.
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- The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.
- A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
- a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.
- a heavy writer or book
- whilst the heavy ploughman snores
- a heavy , dull, degenerate mind
- Neither [is] his ear heavy , that it cannot hear.
- a heavy''' road; a '''heavy soil
- heavy bread
Synonyms
* sweer/swearDerived 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-heavyNoun
(en-noun)- With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
- A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
- The term heavy normally follows the call-sign when used by air traffic controllers.
Verb
- The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.
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- the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.
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- But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone?s tapped. Well, he won?t find anything.
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- 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
Statistics
* 1000 English basic wordstumble
English
Noun
(en noun)- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.