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# heavy

«heavy» in Mova's school dictionary: **weighing a lot and hard to lift** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (heavy, heavier, heaviest); adverb (heavily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Heavy means weighing a lot and hard to lift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#m1)

2) Heavy means a lot of, or strong: heavy rain, heavy traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#m2)

3) A heavy meal is one that makes you feel full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#m3)

4) Heavy can mean sad or serious: «a heavy heart». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

compares weights: heavier by how much, which is heaviest; in science: heavy things are not always big (a small stone can be heavier than a big balloon); in safety: bend your knees to lift something heavy, ask an adult; in weather: heavy rain or snow; phrases: «heavy rain», «heavy traffic», «heavy heart»

### examples

- The box is 3 kg heavier than the bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x1)
- Which is the heaviest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x2)
- A heavy bag weighs 12 kg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x3)
- How much heavier is the dog? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x4)
- This box is too heavy for me to lift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x5)
- Heavy rain flooded the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x6)
- There was heavy traffic on the way to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x7)
- Bend your knees when you lift something heavy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x8)
- She left her old school with a heavy heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/#x9)

### note

«Heavier by» means add; «how much heavier» means subtract. Trap: a kilogram of feathers weighs the same as a kilogram of bricks. Opposite: light. Units: grams and kilograms, pounds and ounces.

### In the corpora

- [Adults sometimes switch off heavy news to take a break from it, because too much bad news makes anyone gloomy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/34-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried/19/)
- [Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes it lighter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/15/)
- [Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/5/)
- [Only the blue whale, which is held up by water, is heavier than the biggest sauropods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/16/)
- [Ankylosaurus was covered with bony plates in its skin and had a heavy club on its tail that could break a predator's leg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heavy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.