an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
Used in a Sentence
heavyweight
How to use heavyweight in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for heavyweight.
Editorial note
He wisely turned them down & went on to become a computer graphics heavyweight.
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Definitions5
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Quick take
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of heavyweight gathered in one view.
a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for heavyweight.
noun
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
noun
a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
noun
a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
noun
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
noun
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
Example sentences
He wisely turned them down & went on to become a computer graphics heavyweight.
The collected type info is more heavyweight, but that's really hard to share across different pages.
People go "threads are evil" with vague rationales about getting locks right and such, and insist we all use separate heavyweight processes.
It's a problem with a language if it requires heavyweight environments to make aspects of writing code in it acceptable.
This is far more lightweight than how Linux now and other operating systems do it with no such process limits and a far more heavyweight full address space switch.
I don't see anything to convince me that "2" + 2 will be a concatenation... in the spec.>Thus, isolates are a heavyweight thread control model very much like Perl 5's ithreads.
I think it's more about having systems that can tell if X is an unusual or heavyweight action and say, "Hey, you're about to do X, which impacts a lot of stuff and you've never done before.
XBL deserves criticism for being heavyweight, overengineered, and still not being flexible enough despite its enormous complexity.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use heavyweight in a sentence?
He wisely turned them down & went on to become a computer graphics heavyweight.
What does heavyweight mean?
an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
What part of speech is heavyweight?
heavyweight is commonly used as noun.