Overweight vs Obeast - What's the difference?
overweight | obeast |
(of a person) heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
(transportation, legal, 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 1428922504, page 38,
* 1993 , Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm , ISBN 0788104756, page 74,
* 1998 , Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102 , ISBN 1428996532, page 48,
(investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
(chiefly, transport, legal, healthcare) An excess of weight.
* 1976 , Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana, volume 1, page 445:
* 2007 , Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence , page 462:
(investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
*, II.8:
*:We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.
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(slang) A contemptuous and very obese or overweight person
* 1981 , New York Magazine , Jan 12, 1981, page 107
* 2006 , Norman Green, Shooting Dr. Jack , page 235
* 2009 , Harry F. Dahms, Nature, Knowledge and Negation , page 323
(religion) A intelligent demonic influence or entity
* 2006 , Oneal McQuick, Fasting & Prayers , page 23
* 2007 , Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk , page 39
* 2008 , Orlando Constantine, Angels, Let's Talk 2008-2009 Follow Up Notes
As nouns the difference between overweight and obeast
is that overweight is (chiefly|transport|legal|healthcare) an excess of weight while obeast is (slang) a contemptuous and very obese or overweight person.As an adjective overweight
is (of a person) heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.As a verb overweight
is to place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.overweight
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
- 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.
- 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.
- Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
Synonyms
* (of a person) clinically obese, fat, morbidly obese, obese, super obese * See alsoNoun
(-)- SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT
- Apple common stock is one of our overweights .
Verb
(en verb)How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?
Antonyms
* underweight English heteronymsobeast
English
Noun
(en noun)- The doctor told me I was a little obeast .
- “There's gotta be a ladder up there, and I can't hoist you, you's obeast .”
- Fast Food Nation, where, as I overheard one new mother in my town recently note, children are likely to grow up
'' obeast'
- I mentioned something of intelligent nature created by devils called an obeast or called that by the blues; in the article, “Real Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
- For an obeast in a human, the human being dead, have the abilities that Christ displayed upon resurrection.
- if they or the obeast or any is successful in yanking a brain or head part, nerve, blood vessel, etc, then as the scripture has said, “without thy mind would I do nothing” (Philemon 1:14)