Thin vs Heavy - What's the difference?
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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
* Addison
(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
* Dryden
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
To make thin or thinner.
To become thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
* Francis Bacon
(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,
As a proper noun thin
is the fifth earthly branch represented by the.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.As a noun heavy is
a villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.As a verb heavy is
to make heavier.thin
English
Adjective
(thinner)- thin plate of metal
- thin paper
- thin board
- thin covering
- thin wire
- thin string
- thin person
- The trees of a forest are thin'''; the corn or grass is '''thin .
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- thin , hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- a thin disguise
Synonyms
* reedy * slender * slim * skinny * waifish * fine * lightweight * narrow * svelte * See alsoAntonyms
* thickDerived terms
* into thin air * razor thin * thin air * thin as a rake * thick and thin * thin-skinned * wear thinNoun
(en noun)- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Verb
Derived terms
* thin outAdverb
(en adverb)- seed sown thin
- Spain is thin sown of people.
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* 1000 English basic words ----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.