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Heavy can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

heavy used as an adjective:

  1. Having great weight.
  2. Serious, somber.
  3. good.
    "This film is heavy."
  4. Profound.
    "The Moody Blues are, like, heavy."
  5. High, great.
  6. armed.
    "Come heavy, or not at all."
  7. louder, more distorted
    "Metal is heavier than swing."
  8. hot and humid
  9. doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
    "He was a heavy sleeper, heavy eater and a heavy smoker - certainly not an ideal husband."
  10. high in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
    "Cheese stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising."
  11. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense;
    "It was a heavy storm"
  12. laden to a great extent.
    "His eyes were heavy with sleep"

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

heavy used as a noun:

  1. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
    "With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films."
  2. A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
    "A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

heavy used as a verb:

  1. To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations.
    "The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is heavy?

As detailed above, 'heavy' can be an adjective, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: This film is heavy.
  2. Adjective usage: The Moody Blues are, like, heavy.
  3. Adjective usage: Come heavy, or not at all.
  4. Adjective usage: Metal is heavier than swing.
  5. Adjective usage: He was a heavy sleeper, heavy eater and a heavy smoker - certainly not an ideal husband.
  6. Adjective usage: Cheese stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.
  7. Adjective usage: It was a heavy storm
  8. Adjective usage: A heavy slumber in bed
  9. Adjective usage: A heavy punch
  10. Adjective usage: His eyes were heavy with sleep
  11. Adjective usage: She was heavy with child
  12. Noun usage: With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.
  13. Noun usage: A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.
  14. Verb usage: The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of heavy are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of heavy, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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