different between overweight vs dense
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
overweight From the web:
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dense
English
Etymology
From Middle French dense, from Latin densus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /d?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Adjective
dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)
- Having relatively high density.
- Synonym: solid
- Compact; crowded together.
- Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
- Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Synonyms: thick, solid
- Antonym: thin
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Synonyms: cloudy, opaque; see also Thesaurus:opaque
- Antonyms: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Synonyms: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
- (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on dense sets for mathematical definition.
- Antonym: meager
- (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
- Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid
- Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
Antonyms
- (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)
Translations
Noun
dense (plural denses)
- A thicket.
Anagrams
- Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed
Esperanto
Etymology
From densa +? -e.
Adverb
dense
- densely
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin densus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s/
Adjective
dense (plural denses)
- dense
Related terms
- condenser
- densité
Further reading
- “dense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
dense
- feminine plural of denso
Latin
Etymology
From d?nsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +? -? (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?den.se?/, [?d???s?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?den.se/, [?d??ns?]
Adverb
d?ns? (comparative d?nsius, superlative d?nsissim?)
- closely, in rapid succession
Related terms
References
- dense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dense in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Spanish
Verb
dense
- Compound of the second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of dar, den and the pronoun se.
dense From the web:
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- what densely populated mean
- what denser mean
- what dense breast tissue means
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- what dense fog mean
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- what dense layer do
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