heavy
part of speech
adjective (heavy, heavier, heaviest); adverb (heavily)
meaning for a pupil
1) Heavy means weighing a lot and hard to lift. tree →
2) Heavy means a lot of, or strong: heavy rain, heavy traffic. tree →
3) A heavy meal is one that makes you feel full. tree →
4) Heavy can mean sad or serious: «a heavy heart». tree →
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 →
- Which is the heaviest? tree →
- A heavy bag weighs 12 kg. tree →
- How much heavier is the dog? tree →
- This box is too heavy for me to lift. tree →
- Heavy rain flooded the road. tree →
- There was heavy traffic on the way to school. tree →
- Bend your knees when you lift something heavy. tree →
- She left her old school with a heavy heart. tree →
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.
- Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes it lighter.
- Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.
- Only the blue whale, which is held up by water, is heavier than the biggest sauropods.
- Ankylosaurus was covered with bony plates in its skin and had a heavy club on its tail that could break a predator's leg.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heavy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.