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Heavyset vs Demonstration - What's the difference?

heavyset | demonstration |

As an adjective heavyset

is (of a person) having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.

As a noun demonstration is

demonstration (act of showing and explaining).

heavyset

English

Alternative forms

* heavy-set

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.
  • * 1989 , " One Bear Of a Soviet Politician," Time , 20 Mar.,
  • No Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset , 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains.

    Usage notes

    * (term) suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not extreme obesity.

    Synonyms

    * stocky, stout, thickset

    demonstration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
  • An event at which something will be demonstrated.
  • I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  • A public display of group opinion.
  • A show of military force.
  • A mathematical proof.
  • * , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
  • He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.