dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
heavy lifting | difficult work, the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting |
traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic drug trafficking narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
artillery heavy weapon gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
traffic circle circle rotary roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
traffic light traffic signal stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
heavy metal heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
traffic | the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time, heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines, traffic on the internet is lightest during the night |
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 |
traffic jam snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time |
air traffic | traffic created by the movement of aircraft |
commuter traffic | traffic created by people going to or returning from work |
pedestrian traffic foot traffic | people coming and going on foot |
vehicular traffic vehicle traffic | the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality |
automobile traffic car traffic | cars coming and going |
bicycle traffic | bicycles coming and going |
bus traffic | buses coming and going |
truck traffic | trucks coming and going |
traffic pattern approach pattern pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
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 |
traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
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 |
traffic | trade or deal a commodity, They trafficked with us for gold |
traffic | deal illegally, traffic drugs |
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 |