Heavyset vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
heavyset | demonstration |
(of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight.
* 1989 , "
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
A public display of group opinion.
A show of military force.
A mathematical proof.
* , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
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
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Alternative forms
* heavy-setAdjective
(en adjective)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, thicksetdemonstration
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Noun
(en noun)- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.