Counterweighed vs Counterweighted - What's the difference?
counterweighed | counterweighted |
(counterweigh)
To act as counterbalance (against something).
To counterbalance; to balance out.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 709:
(counterweight)
A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
As verbs the difference between counterweighed and counterweighted
is that counterweighed is (counterweigh) while counterweighted is (counterweight).counterweighed
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(head)counterweigh
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(en verb)- Yet Francis's favour could not counterweigh the disastrous flaw in European Christian mission in Africa, its association with the Portuguese slave trade.
