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overweight
English
Etymology
over- +? weight
Pronunciation
- (adjective):
- (UK) IPA(key): /???v??we?t/
- (US) enPR: ?'v?r-w?t?, IPA(key): /?o?v??we?t/
- (noun):
- (UK) IPA(key): /???v?we?t/
- (US) enPR: ??v?r-w?t, IPA(key): /?o?v?we?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Adjective
overweight (comparative more overweight, superlative most overweight)
- (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
- (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- 1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, ?ISBN, page 38,
- All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
- 1993, Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm, ?ISBN, page 74,
- 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.
- 1998, Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102, ?ISBN, page 48,
- 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.
- 1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, ?ISBN, page 38,
- (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
- Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
Synonyms
- (of a person): fat, morbidly obese, obese, overnourished (often euphemistic)
- See also Thesaurus:obese
Antonyms
- underweight
Translations
Noun
overweight (countable and uncountable, plural overweights)
- (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) An excess of weight.
- 1976, Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana, volume 1, page 445:
- (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.
- […] 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; […]
- 2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462:
- SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT
- (countable) An overweight person.
- (countable, investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
- Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
Synonyms
- (of a person): adiposity, obesity
Antonyms
- underweight
Translations
Verb
overweight (third-person singular simple present overweights, present participle overweighting, simple past and past participle overweighted)
- (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
- (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. [from 17th c.]
Antonyms
- underweight
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broad
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English br?d (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b???d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??d/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /b??d/
- Rhymes: -??d
Adjective
broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)
- Wide in extent or scope.
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- 1720, William Bartlet, a sermon
- broad and open day
- May 12, 1860, Eliza Watson, Witches and witchcraft (in Once A Week, No. 46.)
- crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day
- 1720, William Bartlet, a sermon
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- a broad mixture of falsehood
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- 1819, D. Daggett, Sturges v. Crowninshield
- The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
- 1859, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster: An Oration On the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster,
- in a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way
- 1819, D. Daggett, Sturges v. Crowninshield
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- to be in broad agreement
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
Antonyms
- (wide—regarding occupied space, width of an object): thin, narrow
- (wide—regarding body width): skinny
- (comprehensive): all-encompassing; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
- (not palatalized): slender
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
broad (plural broads)
- (Britain) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- 1974, The Video Handbook (page 71)
- […] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.
- 1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook (volume 10, page 105)
- Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]
- 2015, Jim Owens, Television Production (page 194)
- Light bounced from large white surfaces (e.g., matte reflector boards, or a white ceiling). Floodlights include scoops, broads, floodlight, banks, internally reflected units, strip lights, and cyclorama lights.
- 1974, The Video Handbook (page 71)
Derived terms
- Broadland (sense 1)
- Oulton Broad (sense 1)
Etymology 2
Early 20th century. Said to be from abroadwife (“woman who lives or travels without her husband”), though it might be in part an alteration of bride, especially through influence of cognate German Braut, which is used in the same sense of “broad, young woman, hussy”. Compare already Middle High German br?t (“concubine”).
Noun
broad (plural broads)
- (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
- (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated, derogatory) A woman or girl.
- Who was that broad I saw you with?
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:prostitute
- See also Thesaurus:woman
- See also Thesaurus:girl
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Word formation verb -en noun -ness
Anagrams
- Bardo, Board, Borda, Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, board, dobra
Breton
Etymology
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Noun
broad m (plural broiz)
- person from a country
Inflection
Noun
broad f (plural broadoù)
- nation
Inflection
Derived terms
- broadel
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