Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made to withstand hard use or wear.
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- adjective Designed to withstand hard usage without breaking.
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- adjective designed for heavy work
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Examples
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Into the word jazz, whether we like it or not, are plugged long, heavy-duty cables connecting to issues of race, the individual and the group in a democracy, the role of the arts in a commercial culture, the relationship of so-called ‘high art’ to so-called ‘popular art,’ the question of whether there is such a thing as progress in the arts, and on and on page ix.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Into the word jazz, whether we like it or not, are plugged long, heavy-duty cables connecting to issues of race, the individual and the group in a democracy, the role of the arts in a commercial culture, the relationship of so-called ‘high art’ to so-called ‘popular art,’ the question of whether there is such a thing as progress in the arts, and on and on page ix.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Light wind kites were used when the breeze was less than 8mph, and heavy-duty ones when it was above 30mph.
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Besides better coding, IE9 incorporates GPU acceleration -- which basically means the browser passes on the heavy-duty processing of such Web animations to your computer's graphics chipset.
6 things we like about Internet Explorer 9 beta (and six not so much) Howard Wen 2010
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I need to wear a special heavy-duty suspension rig for my disbelief when I watch that show.
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From the BBC's ubiquitous use of Horne and Corden in their various heavy-duty publicity campaigns, one can only presume that the corporation considers this modern comedy due to be representative of the overall quality of BBC's programme output.
Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Waterproof, heavy-duty plastic bags for waste disposal.
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In many cases, however, mental health professionals are not so much worried about the generic "overmedication" mentioned in media accounts as they are about certain new diagnoses, such as "Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome" and "Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder" leading to certain heavy-duty medications -- namely, atypical antipsychotics -- being prescribed to particular groups, such as young people.
Kaitlin Bell Barnett: Revisions to Psychiatry's 'Bible' Have People Crying Overmedication -- But Don't Freak Out Just Yet Kaitlin Bell Barnett 2012
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About 70 percent of the oil we import is used as our primary transportation fuel: as gasoline for our national fleet of 250 million cars and light trucks, or as diesel fuel for our 8 million heavy-duty and fleet trucks.
T. Boone Pickens: Get With the Plan T. Boone Pickens 2011
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In many cases, however, mental health professionals are not so much worried about the generic "overmedication" mentioned in media accounts as they are about certain new diagnoses, such as "Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome" and "Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder" leading to certain heavy-duty medications -- namely, atypical antipsychotics -- being prescribed to particular groups, such as young people.
Kaitlin Bell Barnett: Revisions to Psychiatry's 'Bible' Have People Crying Overmedication -- But Don't Freak Out Just Yet Kaitlin Bell Barnett 2012
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