heavyweight
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
heavyweight \heavyweight\ n.
1. a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. a boxer who weighs more than 195 pounds.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a very large person.
Syn: giant, hulk.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. a person of exceptional importance and reputation.
Syn: colossus, behemoth, giant, titan.
[WordNet 1.5]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
heavyweight
adj.
[common] High-overhead; {baroque}; code-intensive; featureful, but
costly. Esp. 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 utilization, 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}.
Oppose lightweight. Usage: now borders on techspeak, especially in the
compound heavyweight process.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavyweight":
Chinese boxer, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence,
bantamweight, big, big boy, big cheese, big wheel, big-league,
big-name, big-time, big-timer, bigwig, bigwigged, black belt,
blimp, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, catchweight, chief,
consequential, considerable, court, double-barreled, earthshaking,
eminence grise, fat, fat cat, fatty, featherweight, fighter,
fisticuffer, five-percenter, flyweight, friend at court,
good influence, grand, gray eminence, great, heavy, hefty,
hidden hand, high-powered, hippo, important, influence,
influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, karate expert, key,
kingmaker, leaden, leader, light heavyweight, lightweight, lion,
lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, lump, major, man of influence,
manipulator, massive, massy, material, middleweight, momentous,
name, open sesame, overweight, palooka, ponderous, potbelly,
powers that be, pressure group, prizefighter, pug, pugilist,
roly-poly, savate expert, self-important, significant,
sinister influence, sparrer, special interests,
special-interest group, substantial, superior, swagbelly,
the Establishment, tub, tub of lard, tun, very important person,
weighty, welterweight, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller,
world-shaking
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