makeweight

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İngilizce - Türkçe
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
İngilizce - İngilizce
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
makeweight