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COUNTERWEIGH

Definition: COUNTERWEIGH

COUNTERWEIGH

Transitive verb

1. To weigh against; to counterbalance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: COUNTERWEIGH

Language Translations for "COUNTERWEIGH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

уравновесявам (balance, countervail, equalize, equilibrate, equipoise, equiponderate, offset, poise, steady, trim). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αντιστάθμισμα (counterbalance, counterpoise, offset). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ellensúlyoz (compensate, countervail, equiponderate, offset, set off, to correct, to counteract, to equilibrate, to offset, to set off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ounterweighcay

   

Portuguese

  

contrabalançar (balance, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, equipoise, neutralize, offset, poise), comparar (collate, compare, confer, equate, liken, measure, paragon, scale). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уравновешивать (countervail, equilibrate, equiponderate, trim, weigh up, weight out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

protivtežiti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

contrapesar (counterpoise, offset). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppväga (compensate for, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, equipoise, neutralize, off-set, outbalance, out-balance, outweigh, weigh against). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, quittance, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, requital, response, return, reward, riposte, wages), eşit ağırlık. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зрівноважувати (countervail, weigh up). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: COUNTERWEIGH

Derivations

Words beginning with "COUNTERWEIGH": counterweight, counterweighted, counterweighting, counterweights. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COUNTERWEIGH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-r-t-u-w"

-2 letters: retouching.

-3 letters: hectoring, rechewing, reechoing, tochering, whereinto, whereunto, wuthering.

-4 letters: ceinture, cheering, coherent, cohering, coinhere, cothurni, courting, couthier, cowering, enuretic, erecting, erection, erogenic, eructing, euchring, geniture, gentrice, gerontic, hereinto, hereunto, ingrowth, neoteric, neurotic, ochering, outweigh, retching, ruthenic, theurgic, throwing, torching, touchier, touching, towering, unerotic, unheroic, unweight, weighter, whitener, worthing.

-5 letters: cheerio, chewier, chewing, choregi.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-r-t-u-w"
 

+1 letter: counterweight.

 

+2 letters: counterweights.

 

+3 letters: counterweighted.

 

+4 letters: counterweighting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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