overweightとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (adjective):
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
  • (米国発音) enPR: ō'vər-wātʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
• (noun):
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəweɪt/
  • (米国発音) enPR: ōʹvər-wāt, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

形容詞

overweight (comparative more overweight, superlative most overweight)

1. (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

   Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.

2. (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.

3. (investment, finance, followed by a noun または prepositional phrase indicating a security または type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

   Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.

同意語

• (of a person): fat, morbidly obese, obese, overnourished (often euphemistic)
• See also Thesaurus:obese

反意語

• underweight

名詞

overweight (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 overweights)

1. (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) An excess of weight.
   • 1976, Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana, volume 1, page 445:

     […] 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; […]

2. (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.
   • 2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462:

     SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT

3. (countable) An overweight person.
4. (countable, investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

   Apple common stock is one of our overweights.

同意語

• (of a person): adiposity, obesity

反意語

• underweight

動詞

overweight (三人称単数 現在形 overweights, 現在分詞 overweighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 overweighted)

1. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.

2. (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. [from 17th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.

   • 2009, January 11, “How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?”, in New York Times:

     Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed.