What (who) is heavyweight - definition
WEIGHT CLASS IN COMBAT SPORTS
Heavyweight boxer; Heavyweight boxing; Heavyweight division; Heavyweight (boxing)
heavyweight
(heavyweights)
1.
A heavyweight is a boxer weighing more than 175 pounds and therefore in the heaviest class.
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2.
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.
He was a political heavyweight.
N-COUNT: oft supp N
heavyweight
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".
(1994-12-22)
heavyweight
¦ noun
1. a weight in boxing and other sports, typically the heaviest category.
2. informal a person of influence or importance.
¦ adjective
1. of above-average weight.
2. informal serious, important, or influential.
Wikipedia
Heavyweight
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling.
Pronunciation examples for heavyweight
1.
ln the heavyweight division,
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2. to most mobile heavyweight apps.
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3. because it's just a big heavyweight thing
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4. defeated the then-heavyweight-champion Sonny
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5. So the heart is the heavyweight.
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Examples of use of heavyweight
1. Patterson fought as a light heavyweight until becoming a heavyweight in 1'56.
2. The top eight finishers in the light flyweight to light heavyweight divisions and the top four from the heavyweight and super heavyweight classes qualify for the Olympics.
3. Market heavyweight Samsung Electronics up 2.5 percent.
4. Where does it leave other heavyweight contenders?
5. Another heavyweight, Gazit Globe, actually retreated by 0.6 percent.