makeweight vs weight

weight vs makeweight

makeweight and weight both are nouns.

makeweight is not a verb while weight is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
makeweight	Yes	No	No	No
weight	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, weight is a hypernym of makeweight; that is, weight is a word with a broader meaning than makeweight:

makeweight: a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight
weight: an artifact that is heavy

makeweight (noun)	weight (noun)
a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight	an artifact that is heavy
anything added to fill out a whole	sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
	the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
	the relative importance granted to something
	an oppressive feeling of heavy force
	a unit used to measure weight
	a system of units used to express the weight of something
	(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

makeweight (verb)	weight (verb)
	present with a bias
	weight down with a load

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