different between overweight vs gigantic
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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gigantic
English
Alternative forms
- gigantick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (gigantikós), ultimately from ????? (gígas, “giant”). According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?-g?n't?k, IPA(key): /d?a???ænt?k/
- Rhymes: -ænt?k
Adjective
gigantic (comparative more gigantic, superlative most gigantic)
- Very large.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 1[1]:
- Thou Genius of the place (this most renowned Ile)
- Which livedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood,
- Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood;
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 1[1]:
- In the manner of a giant.
Synonyms
- gigantesque
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
- gigantism
Related terms
- giant
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
gigant +? -ic
Adjective
gigantic m or n (feminine singular gigantic?, masculine plural gigantici, feminine and neuter plural gigantice)
- giant
Declension
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- what giganticus mean
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