trim trimming clipping | cutting down to the desired size or shape |
heavy lifting | difficult work, the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting |
artillery heavy weapon gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
trimming trim passementerie | a decoration or adornment on a garment, the trimming on a hat, the trim on a shirt |
heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
heavy metal heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
ground swell heavy swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean |
double creme heavy whipping cream | cream with a fat content of % or more |
heavy cream | contains more than % butterfat |
baryon heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
heavy hitter | an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in |
heavy | an actor who plays villainous roles |
trim | attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation |
trim trimness | a state of arrangement or appearance, in good trim |
heavy metal | a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about ) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead) |
deuterium heavy hydrogen | an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) |
heavy spar barite barytes barium sulphate | a white or colorless mineral (BaSO), the main source of barium |
heavy water deuterium oxide | water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors |
trim | adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used |
reduce cut down cut back trim trim down trim back cut bring down | cut down on, make a reduction in, reduce your daily fat intake, The employer wants to cut back health benefits |
shave trim | cut closely, trim my beard |
pare trim | remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size, pare one's fingernails, trim the photograph, trim lumber |
snip clip crop trim lop dress prune cut back | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of, dress the plants in the garden |
trim garnish dress | decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods |
trim | decorate, as with ornaments, trim the christmas tree, trim a shop window |
trim | be in equilibrium during a flight, The airplane trimmed |
trim | balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces, trim an airplane |
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
big(p) enceinte expectant gravid great(p) large(p) heavy(p) with child(p) | in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was big with child, was great with child |
heavy-coated | wearing a heavy coat, heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses |
heavy lowering sullen threatening | darkened by clouds, a heavy sky |
clayey cloggy heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained, the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated |
heavy profound sound wakeles | (of sleep) deep and complete, a heavy sleep, fell into a profound sleep, a sound sleeper, deep wakeless sleep |
heavy-handed roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
heavy leaden | lacking lightness or liveliness, heavy humor, a leaden conversation |
a arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious operose punishing toilsome | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion, especially physical effort, worked their arduous way up the mining valley, a grueling campaign, hard labor, heavy work, heavy going, spent many laborious hours on the project, set a punishing pace |
heavy labored laboured | requiring or showing effort, heavy breathing, the subject made for labored reading |
burdened heavy-laden loaded down | bearing a physically heavy weight or load, tree limbs burdened with ice, a heavy-laden cart, loaded down with packages |
fleshy heavy overweight | usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it |
spare trim | thin and fit, the spare figure of a marathon runner, a body kept trim by exercise |
heavy weighed down | full of, bearing great weight, trees heavy with fruit, vines weighed down with grapes |
heavy | sharply inclined, a heavy grade |
heavy | dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal, a heavy pudding |
heavy | of comparatively great physical weight or density, a heavy load, lead is a heavy metal, heavy mahogany furniture |
heavy-duty | designed for heavy work, a heavy-duty detergent, heavy-duty gloves |
heavy | large and powerful, especially designed for heavy loads or rough work, a heavy truck, heavy machinery |
heavy | marked by great psychological weight, weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness, a heavy heart, a heavy schedule, heavy news, a heavy silence, heavy eyelids |
heavy | unusually great in degree or quantity or number, heavy taxes, a heavy fine, heavy casualties, heavy losses, heavy rain, heavy traffic |
heavy | (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight, heavy hydrogen, heavy water |
heavy | of great intensity or power or force, a heavy blow, the fighting was heavy, heavy seas |