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Eightlike vs Weightlike - What's the difference?

eightlike | weightlike |

As adjectives the difference between eightlike and weightlike

is that eightlike is (rare) shaped like a figure eight while weightlike is resembling or characteristic of weight.

eightlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Shaped like a figure eight.
  • * 1965 , August Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann, Paul Kramer, Helen Ross, Delinquency and child guidance: selected papers?
    • ...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape of the crumpled wheel and the figure eight more generally.
  • * 2006 , Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nation
    • For example, some scholars thought that an eightlike figure on the robe of the Virgin signified that the image was the eighth wonder of the world.

    Synonyms

    * octiform

    weightlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of weight.
    • a weightlike chest pain
    a weightlike measure