(n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The size of the fee feels startling given that Matic had been considered little more than a £3m makeweight in the £23.5m deal that brought David Luiz from the Estádio da Luz three years ago.
(2) Van Gaal is open to letting the winger leave if he can be a makeweight in acquiring Cavani.
(3) Barça hope to secure the player this summer, with the Chile forward Alexis Sánchez potentially moving to Anfield as an eye-catching makeweight, and have indicated they have the funds to compete at such a level in the transfer market.
(4) The reasons include the inevitable argument over the value of the makeweight, his personal terms and desire to make the move.
(5) The prospective valuation of Vidal is not thought to be an issue for Van Gaal, with one option being to offer a player as a makeweight.
(6) Barcelona are believed to be willing to pay a straight cash sum for Suárez or to include Alexis Sánchez as a makeweight, as Liverpool had requested.
(7) A player could also be included as a makeweight in the second deal.
(8) The 24-year-old has endured a troubled time at Villa and has started only six Premier League matches since arriving as a makeweight in the deal that took James Milner to Manchester City.
(9) Levy would want any makeweight to come over and above the €100m fee for Bale whereas Real would decrease the cash sum according to the player involved.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur are prepared to sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid and they will tell the Spanish club that the prospect of a deal would increase if the striker Alvaro Morata were included as a makeweight.
(11) Yet the fee remains remarkable given Chelsea had considered Matic to be only a makeweight in the deal which brought David Luiz from Benfica in the 2011 mid-winter window, the midfielder's valuation at the time being placed at around £3m.
(12) Benfica earmarked him then as a priority makeweight when the London club sought to recruit David Luiz and he impressed against his former club in May's Europa League final .
(13) Although the possibility of Alexis Sánchez joining as a £30m makeweight appealed to Rodgers, that prospect died when the Chile striker swapped Barça for Arsenal on Thursday.
(14) They have put forward the left-back Fábio Coentrão and the winger Angel di María, whose values they have variously factored into the potential package, but Tottenham maintain that the deal will be on their terms, meaning that they choose any makeweights and the one that they want is Morata.
(15) The ageing Mexican wonder-makeweight Giovani dos Santos could be going the other way.
(16) On the other hand, Chelsea's re-signing of Nemanja Matic in January for £21m, three years after they allowed him to leave as a makeweight worth £3m in the deal that brought David Luiz from Benfica, has proved that judgments and decisions on players can be reversed.
(17) But Algeria, unjustly written off as this group’s likely makeweights but ranked above all their African rivals, refused to be intimidated and pushed Belgium all the way.
(18) The £21m outlay raised eyebrows, given he had been considered a makeweight two years previously, but he has added value to this set-up.
Weight
Definition:
(v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
(v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(12) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
(15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.