different between overweight vs huge
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:
- what overweight stock means
- what overweight means
- what overweight for my height
- what overweight for a 16 year old
- what overweight can cause
- what overweight looks like
- what overweight for a 2 year old
- what does overweight
huge
English
Etymology
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian ka?karas (“hill”), Old High German h?h (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English h?ah (“high”). More at high.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /hju?d??/, [çu??d??]
- (US)
- (NYC, some other US dialects) IPA(key): /ju?d?/
- (Norfolk) IPA(key): [h?ud?]
Adjective
huge (comparative huger, superlative hugest)
- Very large.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, […] the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
- (slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
Synonyms
- (very large): colossal, elephantine, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast.
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Antonyms
- (very large): tiny, small, minuscule, midget, dwarf
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- huge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- huge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- e-hug, eugh, gehu
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hoige, houge, hugge, hoge, hogge, hoege, heug, heuge, hogh
Etymology
From Old French ahuge, a form of ahoge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hiu?d?(?)/
Adjective
huge
- huge, large, enormous
- great, severe, excessive, prominent
- numerous, plentiful
Descendants
- English: huge
- Scots: huge, hudge
References
- “h??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Adverb
huge
- hugely, greatly
References
- “h??e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Middle French
Noun
huge f (plural huges)
- market stall
huge From the web:
- what huge means
- what huge country is west of japan
- what does huge mean
you may also like
- overweight vs huge
- opening vs fault
- skilled vs fit
- beat vs assail
- smack vs sock
- fundamental vs first
- pack vs legion
- fretfulness vs disquiet
- emotional vs spirited
- hurl vs shatter
- immoral vs depraved
- revolting vs ugly
- stratagem vs plot
- character vs endowment
- influence vs account
- acceptable vs licit
- guileless vs reserved
- oversupply vs flood
- shrewdness vs clearheadedness
- debit vs arrear