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Definition: HEAVY METAL

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about 5) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead).[Wordnet]
2. Loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat; lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery.[Wordnet].
Expression 1. (Mil.), large guns carrying balls of a large size; also, large balls for such guns.[Websters].

Sources: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Topics by Level of Interest: HEAVY METAL

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Heavy metal music 151     1960s in heavy metal music 20
Australian heavy metal 58     1970 in heavy metal music 8
2008 in heavy metal music 44     1971 in heavy metal music 8
Heavy metal umlaut 32     1972 in heavy metal music 7
Heavy metal subgenres 28     1973 in heavy metal music 8
Heavy Metal (film) 26     1974 in heavy metal music 6
New Wave of British Heavy Metal 24     1975 in heavy metal music 5
Heavy Metal L-Gaim 24     1976 in heavy metal music 5
1960s in heavy metal music 20     1977 in heavy metal music 4
2007 in heavy metal music 19     1978 in heavy metal music 4
Heavy metal fashion 18     1979 in heavy metal music 4
Youth Gone Wild: Heavy Metal Hits of the '80s 15     1980 in heavy metal music 5
List of heavy metal bands 15     1981 in heavy metal music 5
List of heavy metal bands by genre 15     1982 in heavy metal music 7
List of heavy metal guitarists 13     1983 in heavy metal music 8
2006 in heavy metal music 12     1984 in heavy metal music 7
Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal 12     1985 in heavy metal music 8
Heavy Metal Me 11     1986 in heavy metal music 7
Heavy Metal (magazine) 11     1987 in heavy metal music 8
1989 in heavy metal music 11     1988 in heavy metal music 8
IRA (Polish heavy metal band) 11     1989 in heavy metal music 11
Heavy Metal Kings 11     1990 in heavy metal music 7
Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound 11     1991 in heavy metal music 9
Heavy Metal Poisoning 10     1992 in heavy metal music 8
2004 in heavy metal music 9     1993 in heavy metal music 7
2005 in heavy metal music 9     1994 in heavy metal music 7
1991 in heavy metal music 9     1995 in heavy metal music 8
1973 in heavy metal music 8     1996 in heavy metal music 8
1996 in heavy metal music 8     1997 in heavy metal music 7
1992 in heavy metal music 8     1998 in heavy metal music 6
1995 in heavy metal music 8     1999 in heavy metal music 8
1987 in heavy metal music 8     2000 in heavy metal music 8
1970 in heavy metal music 8     2001 in heavy metal music 8
2001 in heavy metal music 8     2002 in heavy metal music 8
1999 in heavy metal music 8     2003 in heavy metal music 8
2003 in heavy metal music 8     2004 in heavy metal music 9
2002 in heavy metal music 8     2005 in heavy metal music 9
1971 in heavy metal music 8     2006 in heavy metal music 12
2000 in heavy metal music 8     2007 in heavy metal music 19
Heavy Metal 2000 8     2008 in heavy metal music 44
1985 in heavy metal music 8     Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder 5
1983 in heavy metal music 8     Australian heavy metal 58
1988 in heavy metal music 8     Flying Heavy Metal 4
1993 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy metal (alternative meanings) 5
1986 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy Metal (film) 26
1990 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy Metal (magazine) 11
Heavy Metal Thunder 7     Heavy Metal (Marvel Comics) 2
List of female heavy metal singers 7     Heavy Metal (truck) 3
Heavy Metal Breakdown 7     Heavy Metal 2000 8
The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time 7     Heavy Metal Breakdown 7
1984 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy metal fashion 18
1997 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy metal in Muslim majority countries 5
Heavy Metal Parking Lot 7     Heavy Metal Kings 11
1994 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy Metal L-Gaim 24
1972 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy Metal Me 11
1982 in heavy metal music 7     Heavy metal music 151
1998 in heavy metal music 6     Heavy Metal Parking Lot 7
The Book of Heavy Metal 6     Heavy Metal Poisoning 10
The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time 6     Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound 11
1974 in heavy metal music 6     Heavy metal subgenres 28
Heavy metal in Muslim majority countries 5     Heavy Metal Thunder 7
Heavy Metal Thunder (Sex Machineguns album) 5     Heavy Metal Thunder (Sex Machineguns album) 5
Heavy Metal Thunder -The Recordings- 5     Heavy Metal Thunder -The Recordings- 5
Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues featuring the Sun Love and the Heavy Metal Thunder 5     Heavy metal umlaut 32
1975 in heavy metal music 5     IRA (Polish heavy metal band) 11
1980 in heavy metal music 5     Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal 12
1981 in heavy metal music 5     List of female heavy metal singers 7
1976 in heavy metal music 5     List of heavy metal bands 15
Heavy metal (alternative meanings) 5     List of heavy metal bands by genre 15
1979 in heavy metal music 4     List of heavy metal guitarists 13
1978 in heavy metal music 4     New Wave of British Heavy Metal 24
1977 in heavy metal music 4     The Book of Heavy Metal 6
Flying Heavy Metal 4     The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time 7
Heavy Metal (truck) 3     The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time 6
Heavy Metal (Marvel Comics) 2     Youth Gone Wild: Heavy Metal Hits of the '80s 15

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Translations: HEAVY METAL

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Balgarski тежка артилерия (heavy metal, heavyweight, heavy-weight), опасен противник (heavy metal), опасен (adventurous, awkward, dangerous, hazardous, hot), сериозен противник (heavy metal), тежък метал (heavy metal). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) tezhka artileriya (heavy metal, heavyweight, heavy-weight), opasen protivnik (heavy metal), opasen (adventurous, awkward, dangerous, hazardous, hot), seriozen protivnik (heavy metal), tezhʺk metal (heavy metal). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian teški metal (heavy metal), kov těžký (heavy metal), těžký kov (heavy metal). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese metal pesado (heavy metal), metais pesados (heavy metal, heavy Metals). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian тежка артилерия (heavy metal, heavyweight, heavy-weight), опасен противник (heavy metal), опасен (adventurous, awkward, dangerous, hazardous, hot), сериозен противник (heavy metal), тежък метал (heavy metal). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) tezhka artileriya (heavy metal, heavyweight, heavy-weight), opasen protivnik (heavy metal), opasen (adventurous, awkward, dangerous, hazardous, hot), seriozen protivnik (heavy metal), tezhʺk metal (heavy metal). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Catalan Heavy Metal (Heavy metal). Additional references: Catalan, Spain, Andorra, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish tungt metal (heavy metal), tungmetal (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina teški metal (heavy metal), kov těžký (heavy metal), těžký kov (heavy metal). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 重金属 (heavy metal, heavy metal music, heavy metals), 强敌 (heavy metal). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 重金屬 (heavy metal, heavy metal music), 強敵 (heavy metal). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse piombu (sinker, buckshot, fuse, fuze, Golly), ciunggiu (block up type, buckshot, cable terminal, car seal, fuse). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi piombu (sinker, buckshot, fuse, fuze, Golly), ciunggiu (block up type, buckshot, cable terminal, car seal, fuse). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican piombu (sinker, buckshot, fuse, fuze, Golly), ciunggiu (block up type, buckshot, cable terminal, car seal, fuse). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso piombu (sinker, buckshot, fuse, fuze, Golly), ciunggiu (block up type, buckshot, cable terminal, car seal, fuse). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu piombu (sinker, buckshot, fuse, fuze, Golly), ciunggiu (block up type, buckshot, cable terminal, car seal, fuse). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech teški metal (heavy metal), kov těžký (heavy metal), těžký kov (heavy metal). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Daco-Rumanian tunuri de calibru mare (heavy metal). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish tungt metal (heavy metal), tungmetal (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk tungt metal (heavy metal), tungmetal (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Schwermetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), Senklot (heavy metal, plummet), Lot (solder, plummet, perpendicular, plumb, heavy metal), Füllung (stuffing, filling, fill, heavy metal, plumb), Blei (lead, Bream, graphite, heavy metal, leading), das Schwermetall (heavy metal). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch zwaar metaal (heavy metal, Heavy metals), lood (lead, bob, leading, leads, plumb), plombe (heavy metal), naaiplombe (heavy metal). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish raskasmetalli (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Français métal lourd (heavy metal, Heavy metals), métal épais (heavy metal), heavy métal (heavy metal), Métal hurlant (Heavy Metal), morceau de plomb (heavy metal), plomb (lead, plumb, plummet, sinker, seal), métaux lourds (heavy Metals, heavy metal). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
French métal lourd (heavy metal, Heavy metals), métal épais (heavy metal), heavy métal (heavy metal), Métal hurlant (Heavy Metal), morceau de plomb (heavy metal), plomb (lead, plumb, plummet, sinker, seal), métaux lourds (heavy Metals, heavy metal). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
German Schwermetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), Senklot (heavy metal, plummet), Lot (solder, plummet, perpendicular, plumb, heavy metal), Füllung (stuffing, filling, fill, heavy metal, plumb), Blei (lead, Bream, graphite, heavy metal, leading), das Schwermetall (heavy metal). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek χεβι μεταλ (heavy metal), βαρύ μέταλλο (heavy metal). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) khevi metal (heavy metal), varu metallo (heavy metal). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 훌륭한 사람 (heavy metal, hunk, Christian, respectable, ripsnorter), 중금속 (heavy metal, Heavy metals), 강적 (heavy metal, tiger, overmatch, threat). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 훌륭한 사람 (heavy metal, hunk, Christian, respectable, ripsnorter), 중금속 (heavy metal, Heavy metals), 강적 (heavy metal, tiger, overmatch, threat). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Schwermetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), Senklot (heavy metal, plummet), Lot (solder, plummet, perpendicular, plumb, heavy metal), Füllung (stuffing, filling, fill, heavy metal, plumb), Blei (lead, Bream, graphite, heavy metal, leading), das Schwermetall (heavy metal). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Schwermetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), Senklot (heavy metal, plummet), Lot (solder, plummet, perpendicular, plumb, heavy metal), Füllung (stuffing, filling, fill, heavy metal, plumb), Blei (lead, Bream, graphite, heavy metal, leading), das Schwermetall (heavy metal). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian metallo pesante (heavy metal), un osso duro da rodere (heavy metal), un avversario temibile (heavy metal). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ヘビーメタル (heavy metal). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 훌륭한 사람 (heavy metal, hunk, Christian, respectable, ripsnorter), 중금속 (heavy metal, Heavy metals), 강적 (heavy metal, tiger, overmatch, threat). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Moldavian tunuri de calibru mare (heavy metal). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese metal pesado (heavy metal), metais pesados (heavy Metals, heavy metal). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Romanian tunuri de calibru mare (heavy metal). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Rumanian tunuri de calibru mare (heavy metal). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi tungmetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), plomb (filling, plug, heavy metal, seal), bly (lead, heavy metal, metal). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian тяжелая артиллерия (heavy artillery, heavy metal), веские аргументы (heavy metal). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) tyazhelaya artilleriya (heavy artillery, heavy metal), veskie argumenty (heavy metal). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki тяжелая артиллерия (heavy artillery, heavy metal), веские аргументы (heavy metal). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) tyazhelaya artilleriya (heavy artillery, heavy metal), veskie argumenty (heavy metal). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland tungt metal (heavy metal), tungmetal (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish metal pesado (heavy metal). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea raskasmetalli (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi raskasmetalli (heavy metal, Heavy metals). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska tungmetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), plomb (filling, plug, heavy metal, seal), bly (lead, heavy metal, metal). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish tungmetall (heavy metal, Heavy metals), plomb (filling, plug, heavy metal, seal), bly (lead, heavy metal, metal). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish heavy metal (heavy metal), bir tür rock müzik (heavy metal). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, heavy metal. (volunteer & more translations)
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