makeweight

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von makeweight im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

tamamlayıcı ağırlık

önemsiz kimse

{i} fasulyeden oyuncu

tartı tamam olsun diye ilâve edilen ağırlık

{i} önemsiz şey

takım tamam olsun diye ilâve olunan değersiz kimse veya şey

{i} ufak ilave

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von makeweight im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of a argument

He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights.

Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight

I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.

{n} any thing to make up due weight

disapproval If you describe someone or something as a makeweight, you think that they are not good or valuable and that they have been included in an activity in order to fill up a gap. He has not been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers

{i} something added to reach a required weight; addition, compensation (for something which is lacking)

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap

a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights

Silbentrennung

make·weight

Etymologie

() make +‎ weight