different between overweight vs obeast
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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obeast
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Blend of obese +? beast
Noun
obeast (plural obeasts)
- (slang, derogatory) A very obese or overweight person.
- 1981, New York Magazine, Jan 12, 1981, page 107
- The doctor told me I was a little obeast.
- 2006, Norman Green, Shooting Dr. Jack, page 235
- “There's gotta be a ladder up there, and I can't hoist you, you's obeast.”
- 2009, Harry F. Dahms, Nature, Knowledge and Negation, page 323
- Fast Food Nation, where, as I overheard one new mother in my town recently note, children are likely to grow up ''obeast'
- 1981, New York Magazine, Jan 12, 1981, page 107
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fat person
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
obeast (plural obeasts)
- (religion) A intelligent demonic influence or entity.
- 2006, Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers, page 23
- I mentioned something of intelligent nature created by devils called an obeast or called that by the blues; in the article, “Real Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
- 2007, Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk, page 39
- For an obeast in a human, the human being dead, have the abilities that Christ displayed upon resurrection.
- 2008, Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk 2008-2009 Follow Up Notes
- if they or the obeast or any is successful in yanking a brain or head part, nerve, blood vessel, etc, then as the scripture has said, “without thy mind would I do nothing” (Philemon 1:14)
- 2006, Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers, page 23
Anagrams
- Beatos, boates
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