makeweight — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

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

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (1)

   1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88. 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.

2. Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.

   Ví dụ

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

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   Other railway schemes of the earliest period certainly mentioned benefits to agriculture, but only as a make-weight; most of them justified themselves by improved transport of minerals for shipment, […], or by carriage of bulk loads of manufactured goods.

   Fashion, as it happens, favors certain rows of the style matrix: museums, connoisseurs, and others are makeweights in the Artworld.

Danh từ

1. anything added to fill out a whole

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   filler

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   objectphysical object

   Ví dụ

   some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights

2. a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   weight