Counterweight vs Ba - What's the difference?
counterweight | ba |
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).
In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
* 1983 , Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings :
As a noun counterweight
is 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 (eg a bascule bridge).As a verb counterweight
is to fit with a counterweight.counterweight
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(en noun)ba
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(wikipedia ba)Etymology 1
Compare Old French ; French bayerEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- But the Ba , I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.
