English - Turkish
Definition of make-weight in English Turkish dictionary
- makeweight
- tamamlayıcı ağırlık
- makeweight
- önemsiz kimse
- makeweight
- {i} fasulyeden oyuncu
- makeweight
- tartı tamam olsun diye ilâve edilen ağırlık
- makeweight
- {i} önemsiz şey
- makeweight
- takım tamam olsun diye ilâve olunan değersiz kimse veya şey
- makeweight
- {i} ufak ilave
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English - English
Definition of make-weight in English English dictionary
- a person or thing that is not very important but is included so there is the right number of people or the right amount of something
- makeweight
- 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.
- makeweight
- {n} any thing to make up due weight
- makeweight
- 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
- makeweight
- {i} something added to reach a required weight; addition, compensation (for something which is lacking)
- makeweight
- something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight
- makeweight
- That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap
- makeweight
- 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