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Definition of overweight in English: overweightadjective əʊvəˈweɪtˌoʊvərˈweɪt 1Above a weight considered normal or desirable. she was a stone overweight 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 Above an allowed weight.
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 nounExcessive or extra weight. 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 overweightedPut too much weight on; overload. 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: overweightadjectiveˌoʊvərˈweɪtˌōvərˈwāt 1Above a weight considered normal or desirable. 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 Above legal weight.
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. 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 overweighted1Put too much weight on; overload. 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.
- 1.1Finance 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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