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Definition of overweight in English:

overweight

adjective əʊvəˈweɪtˌoʊvərˈweɪt
  • 1Above a weight considered normal or desirable.

    过重的,超重的

    she was a stone overweight

    她超重一英石。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • If overweight, her desirable weight gain is significantly less, about 15 to 25 pounds.
    • Therefore, primary preventive strategies may include measures to avoid weight gain, or to achieve weight loss in overweight patients.
    • ‘Gee, look Cindy, they got gondolas,’ crooned an overweight woman to her massive friend.
    • Overall, there is no evidence that low-fat diets are any better than low-calorie diets in achieving weight loss in overweight or obese people.
    • Most of the women in the study who wanted to lose weight were not overweight.
    • Athletic women who are underweight at the start of the pregnancy commonly gain more weight, while overweight women may gain less.
    • A national poll of more than 2000 men asked whether they considered themselves underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese.
    • Bulimics tend to be of normal weight to slightly overweight.
    • It can also be used to determine if people are at a healthy weight, overweight or obese.
    • I was overweight, but I managed to reduce my weight and have maintained it for the last 10 years.
    • The evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for weight loss among overweight adults, compared with obese adults, is limited.
    • Thirty-one percent of children are overweight or obese.
    • If you are overweight, losing weight may help you feel better.
    • In sharp contrast, her junk-food-eating brother who loves hamburgers is massively overweight and so are her mother and father.
    • Even with extremely overweight children, weight loss should be gradual.
    • Balance caloric intake with physical activity and lose weight if currently overweight or obese.
    • The 71-year-old owner has brought in professionals to help his overweight employees lose weight.
    • As long as you're not considerably overweight for your height and age according to your doctor, don't worry about it.
    • Overestimation of height and underestimation of weight in overweight people will magnify underestimation of body mass index.
    • It took ten seconds before he emerged, a medium height, slightly overweight man in an expensive dress outfit.
    Synonyms
    fat, obese, morbidly obese, stout, corpulent, gross, fleshy, plump, portly, chubby, rotund, podgy, roly-poly, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, bloated, flabby, Falstaffian, big, large, ample, well fed, well upholstered, well padded, broad in the beam, bulky, outsize, massive, heavy
    informal porky, pudgy, tubby, blubbery, poddy
    British informal fubsy
    North American informal lard-assed
    archaic pursy
    rare abdominous
    1. 1.1 Above an allowed weight.
      超重的
      an overweight lorry

      一辆超重的卡车。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the mid 1980s an overweight grain truck crashed through the timber deck and forced its only known closure.
      • Only a fool, weight enforcement officers say, knowingly drives an overweight truck into a weigh station.
      • Despite police monitoring the number of overweight lorries using the B3080 when the restriction was introduced, some have not stopped flouting the rules.
      • Of the 537 overweight trucks that inspectors caught last year, the average weight was 75 tons.
      • Five drivers were reported for allegedly having overweight lorries, and received immediate prohibition notices.
      • Both of our bikes were legal; in fact, we were five pounds overweight.
      • One elderly woman has launched her own campaign for a CCTV camera crackdown on overweight lorries illegally passing through the town centre.
noun ˈəʊvəweɪtˈoʊvərˌweɪt
mass noun
  • Excessive or extra weight.

    超重;过重

    surgical procedures for overweight
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To help explain this apparent paradox, we propose that numerous vicious cycles are acting as ‘accelerators’ that maintain and even increase overweight.
    • Only two other comparable studies have examined later adult risk in relation to both childhood and adult overweight, and these used body mass index as a measure of obesity at both ages.
    • Because of the difficulty in maintaining weight loss over time, prevention continues to be the most viable option for controlling overweight.
    • Growth charts, ideal body weight, and body mass index were mostly used to assess and monitor overweight.
    • Most people associate extreme overweight with extreme forms of the same behaviors as those that make the rest of us gain weight - eating too much and not moving.
verb əʊvəˈweɪtˌoʊvərˈweɪt
[with object]usually as adjective overweighted
  • Put too much weight on; overload.

    使负担过重;使超载

    he toppled back like an overweighted mannequin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • An overweighted diver will have to put extra air into a BC or drysuit to maintain neutral buoyancy.
    • Conversely, the overweighted ball is generally used to enhance shoulder strength and power.
    • She was significantly overweighted, and the quick release valve for her integrated weights was inoperable.
    • A while back I discussed how the powers that be will do ‘whatever it takes’ to keep this overweighted barge afloat.
    • Wallowing in the aftermath of such bereavements, she overweights her plots with aching losses.

Definition of overweight in US English:

overweight

adjectiveˌoʊvərˈweɪtˌōvərˈwāt
  • 1Above a weight considered normal or desirable.

    过重的,超重的

    he's forty pounds overweight
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A national poll of more than 2000 men asked whether they considered themselves underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese.
    • Overall, there is no evidence that low-fat diets are any better than low-calorie diets in achieving weight loss in overweight or obese people.
    • It took ten seconds before he emerged, a medium height, slightly overweight man in an expensive dress outfit.
    • The evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for weight loss among overweight adults, compared with obese adults, is limited.
    • Most of the women in the study who wanted to lose weight were not overweight.
    • Even with extremely overweight children, weight loss should be gradual.
    • Therefore, primary preventive strategies may include measures to avoid weight gain, or to achieve weight loss in overweight patients.
    • Overestimation of height and underestimation of weight in overweight people will magnify underestimation of body mass index.
    • It can also be used to determine if people are at a healthy weight, overweight or obese.
    • Athletic women who are underweight at the start of the pregnancy commonly gain more weight, while overweight women may gain less.
    • If overweight, her desirable weight gain is significantly less, about 15 to 25 pounds.
    • Balance caloric intake with physical activity and lose weight if currently overweight or obese.
    • As long as you're not considerably overweight for your height and age according to your doctor, don't worry about it.
    • Thirty-one percent of children are overweight or obese.
    • The 71-year-old owner has brought in professionals to help his overweight employees lose weight.
    • ‘Gee, look Cindy, they got gondolas,’ crooned an overweight woman to her massive friend.
    • If you are overweight, losing weight may help you feel better.
    • In sharp contrast, her junk-food-eating brother who loves hamburgers is massively overweight and so are her mother and father.
    • I was overweight, but I managed to reduce my weight and have maintained it for the last 10 years.
    • Bulimics tend to be of normal weight to slightly overweight.
    Synonyms
    fat, obese, morbidly obese, stout, corpulent, gross, fleshy, plump, portly, chubby, rotund, podgy, roly-poly, paunchy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, bloated, flabby, falstaffian, big, large, ample, well fed, well upholstered, well padded, broad in the beam, bulky, outsize, massive, heavy
    1. 1.1 Above legal weight.
      超重的
      an overweight truck

      一辆超重的卡车。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of the 537 overweight trucks that inspectors caught last year, the average weight was 75 tons.
      • Only a fool, weight enforcement officers say, knowingly drives an overweight truck into a weigh station.
      • Both of our bikes were legal; in fact, we were five pounds overweight.
      • One elderly woman has launched her own campaign for a CCTV camera crackdown on overweight lorries illegally passing through the town centre.
      • Despite police monitoring the number of overweight lorries using the B3080 when the restriction was introduced, some have not stopped flouting the rules.
      • Five drivers were reported for allegedly having overweight lorries, and received immediate prohibition notices.
      • In the mid 1980s an overweight grain truck crashed through the timber deck and forced its only known closure.
nounˈōvərˌwātˈoʊvərˌweɪt
  • Excessive or extra weight.

    超重;过重

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Growth charts, ideal body weight, and body mass index were mostly used to assess and monitor overweight.
    • Most people associate extreme overweight with extreme forms of the same behaviors as those that make the rest of us gain weight - eating too much and not moving.
    • Because of the difficulty in maintaining weight loss over time, prevention continues to be the most viable option for controlling overweight.
    • To help explain this apparent paradox, we propose that numerous vicious cycles are acting as ‘accelerators’ that maintain and even increase overweight.
    • Only two other comparable studies have examined later adult risk in relation to both childhood and adult overweight, and these used body mass index as a measure of obesity at both ages.
verbˌōvərˈwātˌoʊvərˈweɪt
[with object]usually as adjective overweighted
  • 1Put too much weight on; overload.

    使负担过重;使超载

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Conversely, the overweighted ball is generally used to enhance shoulder strength and power.
    • A while back I discussed how the powers that be will do ‘whatever it takes’ to keep this overweighted barge afloat.
    • An overweighted diver will have to put extra air into a BC or drysuit to maintain neutral buoyancy.
    • She was significantly overweighted, and the quick release valve for her integrated weights was inoperable.
    • Wallowing in the aftermath of such bereavements, she overweights her plots with aching losses.
    1. 1.1Finance Invest in (a market sector, industry, etc.) to a greater than normal degree.
      we have overweighted the banking sector
      as adjective we were overweighted in technology last year
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The fund overweights companies that score well on its screens, such as Wells Fargo and Fannie Mae.
      • With a bullish hypothesis on the stock, I aimed to err on the down side by using the low-ball $3.25 estimate of 2003 earnings and overweighting the two ugly scenarios, giving each 10% odds.
      • In constructing the equity indexes care is taken to avoid survivor bias, overweighting companies that last and/or become more important over time.
      • Some stocks in the semiconductor industry are now good values, although we are not overweighted in technology as a whole.
      • Others target specific stocks that are in an index, overweighting those they think are especially undervalued and underweighting those thought to be too dear.
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