overweight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

   “Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.”

2. sıfat Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.

   “All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.”

3. sıfat Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

   “Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.”

4. isim An excess of weight.

   “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[.]”

5. isim The condition of being overweight.

   “SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT”

6. isim An overweight person.

   “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.”

7. isim A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

   “Apple common stock is one of our overweights.”

8. fiil To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.

   “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.”

9. fiil To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

   “We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.”