What does OVERWEIGHT mean?

Definitions for OVERWEIGHT
ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt; ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt; ˌoʊ vərˈweɪtover·weight

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposisadjective

    the property of excessive fatness

  2. fleshy, heavy, overweightadjective

    usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

GCIDE

  1. Overweightadjective

    Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight luggage will incur an extra charge.

Wiktionary

  1. overweightnoun

    An excess of weight.

  2. overweightnoun

    A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

    Apple common stock is one of our overweights.

  3. overweightverb

    To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

  4. overweightadjective

    heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

  5. overweightadjective

    weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce

  6. overweightadjective

    Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Overweightnoun

    Preponderance.

    Etymology: over and weight.

    Sinking into water is but an overweight of the body, in respect of the water. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

Wikipedia

  1. Overweight

    Being overweight or fat is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary. As of 2003, excess weight reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. In 2013, this increased to more than 2 billion. Increases have been observed across all age groups. A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock absorption for sensitive areas, and as energy for future use; however, the accumulation of too much storage fat can impair movement, flexibility, and alter the appearance of the body.

ChatGPT

  1. overweight

    Overweight generally refers to an excess amount of body weight that may come from muscle, bone, fat, and water. Specifically, it is defined as a condition where a person's weight is higher than what is considered healthy for their height, typically measured through the Body Mass Index (BMI). A BMI between 25 and 29.9 usually indicates that a person is overweight.

Wikidata

  1. Overweight

    Overweight is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is a common condition, especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary. Excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese. Increases have been observed across all age groups. A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for the proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock absorption for sensitive areas, and as energy for future use. But the accumulation of too much storage fat can impair movement and flexibility, and can alter the appearance of the body.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Overweight

    A status with BODY WEIGHT that is above certain standard of acceptable or desirable weight. In the scale of BODY MASS INDEX, overweight is defined as having a BMI of 25.0-29.9 kg/m2. Overweight may or may not be due to increases in body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE), hence overweight does not equal "over fat".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of OVERWEIGHT in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of OVERWEIGHT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of OVERWEIGHT in a Sentence

  1. Kathleen King:

    The main thing is not to think of food as good food and bad food. It's all good. It's how much you eat of it, i used to be overweight, and I had that in my mind, if I ate a cookie, that was bad and now the day is ruined, instead of just,' that's cool.'.

  2. Michael Farias:

    You’re not going to save fuel if you overweight them, and they don’t handle well if you really overload them.

  3. Thomson Reuters I/B/E:

    The Greek resolution is now largely priced into European markets, so going forward we're more focused on the European fundamentals ... which we think are very favourable, so we continue to hold European equity overweight on the back of that view.

  4. Ishwarlal Jialal:

    When people are n’t overweight, they don’t have the incentive to work out and get in shape, but without regular exercise, they just get more and more unhealthy.

  5. Ole Christian Bech-Moen:

    We have steadily decreased our overweight to Europe by using the inflow to the fund in buying other regions, if the inflow is lowered then that transition path may need to be revised.

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