Heavy industry

Definition

heavy /'hevi/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ၁။ (က) ေလးလံ[ေသာ]။ ေလး[ေသာ]။ The box is too heavy for me to carry. ❍ Lead is a heavy metal. (ခ) အေလးခ်ိန္ရိွ[ေသာ]။ အေလးခ်ိန္စီး[ေသာ]။ ေလး [ေသာ]။ How heavy is it? ၂။ အရြယ္အစား၊ ပမာဏ၊ အင္အား စသည္ ပံုမွန္ထက္ႀကီးမားမ်ားျပားေသာ၊ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ heavy traffic ❍ heavy rain ❍ heavy seas (ie rough, with big waves) ❍ suffer heavy casualites/ losses ❍ have heavy expenses ❍ a heavy frost ❍ have a heavy cold ❍ heavy (ie loud) breathing ❍ a heavy sleeper (ie one who is difficult to wake) ❍ a heavy drinker/ smoker (ie one who drinks/smokes a lot). ၃။ (က) အလုပ္မ်ားေသာ။ a very heavy day/ programme/schedule. (ခ) (အလုပ္) ၾကမ္း။ employed to do the heavy work. ၄။ (အရိွန္) ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ a heavy blow ❍ She tripped and had a heavy fall. ၅။ (က) ေၾကခဲေသာ(အစာ)။ a heavy meal. (ခ) မာက်စ္ေသာ(ေပါင္မုန္႔)။ a heavy loaf. ၆။ ~ on sth ( infml ) အလြန္စား[ေသာ]၊ မ်ား[ေသာ]။ It's an excellent radio but very heavy on batteries. ❍ Don't go so heavy on the sauce! ၇။ ( derog ) (ေရးဟန္) ခက္ခဲနက္နဲ ေသာ၊ ေလးပင္ေသာ၊ ပ်င္းစရာေကာင္းေသာ။ His article is/ makes heavy reading. ၈။ တင္းက်ပ္ေသာ။ ခက္ထန္ေသာ။ He tends to be rather heavy with/ on his children. ၉။ ထြားက်ဳိင္းတုတ္ခိုင္ ေသာ။ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ heavy features ❍ the heavy mob (ie a group of strong, often violent, people employed to help or protect sb). ၁၀။ ျပည့္ေသာ။ ကိုယ္ျပည့္လက္ျပည့္ ရိွေသာ။ ေလးလံထိုင္းမိႈင္းေသာ။ trees heavy with fruit ❍ heavy with child (ie pregnant) ❍ heavy with sleep. ၁၁။ (က) ပူအိုက္စိုထိုင္းေသာ။ I hate this heavy weather—I wish it would rain. (ခ) မည္းေမွာင္အံု႔ဆိုင္းေသာ။ ၁၂။ ဝမ္းနည္း ပူေဆြးေသာ။ have a heavy heart. n ၁။ ( sl ) ေနာက္ေတာ္ပါလူမိုက္။ a gangster protected by his heavies. ၂။ (ျပဇာတ္၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္မွ) လူဆိုးခန္း။ ❏ heavily adv ေလးေလးလံလံ။ အလြန္အကြၽံ။ တနင့္တပိုး။ အျပည့္အစံု။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္။ ျပင္းထန္စြာ။ a heavily loaded van ❍ smoke/ drink heavily ❍ be heavily taxed ❍ heavily armed terrorists ❍ rely heavily on sb ❍ He fell heavily and twisted his ankle. heaviness n [U] ❏ heavy-duty adj အၾကမ္းပတမ္းခံေသာ။ အၾကမ္းခံေသာ။ a heavy-duty battery/ tyre ❍ heavy-duty clothing. ❏ heavy going [ IDM ] ခက္ခဲေသာ။ ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ She can be rather heavy going (ie hard to talk to in an easy, friendly way). ❍ I find the work very heavy going. ❏ heavy-handed adj ၁။ ႏိုင္ထက္စီးနင္း၊ မခ်င့္မစာ [ျပဳေသာ]။ a heavy-handed manner/ approach/ joke. ၂။ ခက္ထန္ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ ရက္စက္ၾကမ္း ၾကဳတ္ေသာ။ heavy-handed police methods. ၃။ ကိုး႐ိုးကားရားႏိုင္ေသာ။ ❏ heavy-hearted adj စိတ္ေလးေသာ။ ❏ heavy industry n [U, C] အႀကီးစားစက္မႈလုပ္ငန္း။ ❏ heavy metal n လွ်ပ္စစ္တူရိယာမ်ားကို က်ယ္က်ယ္ ေလာင္ေလာင္ အသံခ်ဲ႕တီးေသာ ေရာ့ခ္ေတးဂီတ။ ❏ make heavy weather of sth [ IDM ] မခက္ခက္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ ခ႐ုခါးေတာင္းက်ဳိက္ဖမ္းသည္။

Examples

1. She was struggling with a heavy suitcase.
2. Careful – that box is pretty heavy.
3. You should soon be able to train with the heavier weights.
4. A big heavy door
5. [too heavy] : He was a big man
6. too heavy for the nurses to lift.
7. The bag was heavier than I’d expected.
8. [how heavy?] : How heavy is the box?
9. A heavy black overcoat
10. Heavy silk curtains
11. Do not operate any heavy machinery while taking these medicines.
12. Traffic is particularly heavy on the M5 tonight.
13. He had a very heavy workload.
14. The school places a heavy emphasis on children’s musical development.
15. [heavy rain/snow] : Weather conditions were appalling
16. with heavy rain and strong winds.
17. [heavy reliance on] : Her book shows a heavy reliance on the work of Dr Winston.
18. [heavy casualties] : The conflict caused heavy casualties on both sides.
19. [heavy losses] : The company’s heavy losses will lead to many redundancies.
20. [heavy on] : The main course was a bit heavy on the garlic.
21. [heavy with] : Her voice was heavy with sarcasm.
22. The air was heavy with all the scents of summer.
23. The trees were heavy with blossom.
24. She’s paid a heavy price for her stupidity.
25. [heavy cold] : He’s got a heavy cold and is feeling terrible.
26. [heavy load/burden/responsibility etc] : Her sadness was a heavy burden for him to bear.
27. Industrial areas came under heavy bombardment.
28. Reports of heavy air strikes on the capital
29. [heavy fighting] : Heavy fighting erupted yesterday.
30. He received a heavy blow to the head.
31. [heavy fall] : Her father’s had a heavy fall.
32. [heavy footsteps/tread] : She could hear Bill’s heavy footsteps upstairs.
33. [heavy sigh] : His mother gave a heavy sigh of disapproval.
34. They did most of the heavy work in the morning.
35. The steering on this car is much heavier than on the other one.
36. I found his new book a bit heavy.
37. Her speech was heavy stuff
38. with references to philosophy and psychology.
39. She felt their relationship was getting too heavy.
40. I don’t want any heavy stuff (=anything serious or complicated).
41. Things were getting a bit heavy
42. so I scarpered!
43. [heavy features] : He was a tall dark man
44. with heavy features.
45. He broke into a heavy loping run.
46. The ship went down in heavy seas off the coast of Norway.
47. His legs felt heavy as concrete.
48. He went away with a heavy heart.
49. There was a heavy thud as his body hit the floor.