What's the difference between counterweight and load?

Counterweight


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Capitalism carries disequilibrium within itself and there is only one counterweight: politics.
  • (2) Nevertheless, the buoyancy-mass relationship revealed that they maintain the same degree of positive buoyancy (approximately 10% above the neutral level) at surface as do Korean women divers who adjust counterweights.
  • (3) Lacan's more structural approach to the inner world provides an important counterweight to Kohut's narrow preoccupation with the two-person field, while Kohut's concept of maternal mirroring lends a humane dimension to the icy realms of Lacan's intellectual structures.
  • (4) At the same time, they have to hope that they still have appeal to some moderate, centrist voters as a counterweight and restraint on the red tribe to their left and the blue brigade on their right.
  • (5) And with its credo to keep the state small and its belief in the power of the individual, it is – certainly for Berlin – a reliable counterweight to the French.” Despite all the warm words Merkel and Cameron will say about each other following their lunchtime encounter, the Rhein Zeitung from Koblenz warns Cameron in an editorial that he is going to be “taught a lesson” in Berlin.
  • (6) Development of a prone-position cockpit with a counterweighted, forward-looking head support plus optical-electronically aided all-directional visibility is the most physiologic, safest, and surest way to achieve this goal.
  • (7) President George Bush saw India as a potential counterweight to China and backed a controversial civil nuclear agreement with Delhi.
  • (8) Since then, he has found himself lauded as the more earthy counterweight to his mentor and writing partner Abbas Kiarostami.He plays quiet Georges Braque to his friend's more high-profile Picasso.
  • (9) Scotland would be a counterweight to London's huge, overbearing influence over the British economy.
  • (10) Trump’s lack of concise policy on China has led governments in south-east Asia to wonder if they should still look the US as a counterweight to Beijing if he wins and abandons the “pivot” policy.
  • (11) The practice is a counterweight to the jagged peaks and valleys of the human experience.
  • (12) According to Dr Claudia Neusüss of Berlin's Humboldt University, one reason for the book's German success is its role as a 'counterweight' to TV shows such as Germany's Next Top Model, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum.
  • (13) Vehicles would climb out of the gravity well along a cable anchored to the equator and held under tension by centrifugal force on a counterweight tens of thousands of kilometers high.
  • (14) He has been a counterweight to Steve Hilton, Cameron's more visionary director of strategy, and architect of the "big society".
  • (15) In both cases, adaptation is associated with receptor modification that acts as a counterweight to changed external conditions.
  • (16) This document is a counterweight to claims that Hamas is an irrational, fanatical and bloodthirsty group intent on murdering all Jews.
  • (17) And what of the countries who supported Habré because they regarded him as a counterweight to Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi?
  • (18) "This is softer than expected and, while by no means dashing hopes of a return to positive growth in Q4, cautions against expecting much in the way of near-term impetus from the production sector – this as limited demand at home provides a counterweight to the pick-up in external orders being underwritten by the weakness of the pound," said Richard McGuire at RBC Capital Markets.
  • (19) (I say they, not we, because the Guardian is always a puny counterweight to these massed ranks on the right).
  • (20) The EC document also challenges Universal's claim that piracy will act as a counter measure to stop any one player controlling the digital music market, and that internet giants such as Apple, Amazon and Spotify have enough power to act as a counterweight to a music company of the enlarged group's size.

Load


Definition:

  • (v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
  • (v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
  • (v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
  • (v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
  • (v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
  • (v.) Weight or violence of blows.
  • (v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
  • (v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.
  • (v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
  • (v. t.) To magnetize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (3) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
  • (4) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (5) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (6) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (8) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
  • (9) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
  • (10) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
  • (11) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (12) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
  • (13) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (14) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
  • (15) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
  • (16) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
  • (17) 9 Women performed plantarflexion and dorsalflexion with maximum strength and at constant load of 60% MVC to exhaustion.
  • (18) In PSS amiloride and EIPA each had a small inhibitory effect on the pH recovery after an acid load.
  • (19) Also blacks differ from whites in 2 ways that could be relevant for their increased prevalence of hypertension: they excrete sodium loads more slowly and have a markedly lower urinary kallikrein.
  • (20) Calcium loading to erythrocytes in vitro caused a greater decrease in the membrane fluidity in essential hypertension than in the normotensive controls.