ALL meanings of heavyweight
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H h - noun heavyweight sportsperson of heaviest class 1
- noun heavyweight powerful person, company 1
- noun heavyweight sportsperson: of heaviest class 1
- noun heavyweight person, company: powerful 1
- noun heavyweight important 1
- adjective heavyweight heavy in weight. 1
- adjective heavyweight of more than average weight or thickness: a coat of heavyweight material. 1
- adjective heavyweight noting or pertaining to a boxer, wrestler, etc., of the heaviest competitive class, especially a professional boxer weighing more than 175 pounds (79.4 kg). 1
- adjective heavyweight of or relating to the weight class or division of such boxers: a heavyweight bout. 1
- adjective heavyweight (of a riding horse, especially a hunter) able to carry up to 205 pounds (93 kg). 1
- adjective heavyweight designating a person, company, nation, or other entity that is extremely powerful, influential, or important: a team of heavyweight lawyers. 1
- noun heavyweight a person of more than average weight. 1
- noun heavyweight a heavyweight boxer or wrestler. 1
- noun heavyweight a person, company, nation, or other entity that is powerful and influential: a price hike initiated by the heavyweights in the industry. 1
- noun heavyweight A weight in boxing and other sports, typically the heaviest category. In the amateur boxing scale it ranges from 178 to 200 pounds (81 to 91 kg). 1
- noun Definition of heavyweight in Technology High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane considerations such as speed, memory use and startup time. Emacs is a heavyweight editor; X is an *extremely* heavyweight window system. This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's monstrosity. Opposite: "lightweight". Usage: now borders on technical especially in the compound "heavyweight process". 1
- countable noun heavyweight A heavyweight is a boxer weighing more than 175 pounds and therefore in the heaviest class. 0
- countable noun heavyweight If you refer to a person or organization as a heavyweight, you mean that they have a lot of influence, experience, and importance in a particular field, subject, or activity. 0
- noun heavyweight a person or thing that is heavier than average 0
- noun heavyweight a professional boxer weighing more than 175 pounds (79 kg) 0
- noun heavyweight an amateur boxer weighing more than 81 kg (179 pounds) 0
- noun heavyweight (as modifier) 0
- noun heavyweight a wrestler in a similar weight category (usually over 214 pounds (97 kg)) 0
- noun heavyweight an important or highly influential person 0
- noun heavyweight a person or animal weighing much more than average 0
- noun heavyweight an athlete, in any of various sports, who is in the heaviest weight division or classification; specif., a boxer in the heaviest weight classification, typically weighing over 195 pounds (88.45 kg) 0
- noun heavyweight a very intelligent, influential, or important person 0
- adjective heavyweight heavy in weight 0
- adjective heavyweight of heavyweights 0