overweight
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
government
healthcare
investment
law
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English weight
English overweight
From over- + weight.
Inflected forms:
form: more overweight
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overweight
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: overweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: overweights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overweighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overweighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overweighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
pos: adj
examples: Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
gloss: Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
pos: adj
examples: All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road.
The records did not reveal any previous encounters with severe turbulence. The three major alterations/repairs involving the wing were either far outboard of the strut wing station, or were performed on the right wing. Two overweight landings had been recorded since the aircraft was put into service with Evergreen. In both cases, an inspection of the airplane was accomplished in accordance with the Boeing Maintenance Manual.
Postaccident examination of the vehicle indicated, for example, that the driver had not adequately maintained his logbook and that his vehicle had been overweight for travel in Indiana.
gloss: Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
pos: adj
examples: Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
gloss: An excess of weight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […]
It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.]
gloss: The condition of being overweight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT
gloss: An overweight person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The study provides up-to-date facts on the variety of diseases, vascular, metabolic, hepatic, and other, which are responsible for the excess mortality of overweights.
Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights.
Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
gloss: A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
gloss: To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.
By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies.
Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...].
gloss: To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.
Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed.
Synonyms: ample
beer-bellied
big
bulky
chubby
chunky
embonpoint
flabby
fleshy
full-figured
fulsome
gorbellied
gorrel-bellied
heavy
heavyset
love-handled
meaty
paunchy
pleasantly plump
plump
plus-size
portly
potbellied
podgy
pudgy
roly-poly
rotund
Rubenesque
sonsy
swagbellied
thick
tubby
well-covered
well-padded
well-rounded
well-upholstered
wide
Antonyms: underweight
scrawny
slender
strapping
thin
Related words: gelatinous
fat person
paunch
Derived words: overweightness
overweight spaceship
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