to reduce in weight
21weight watcher — /ˈweɪt wɒtʃə/ (say wayt wochuh) noun someone who diets constantly to reduce weight; calorie counter. {from Weight Watchers International Inc. (trademark), an organisation for dieters} …
22reduce — v. 1 tr. & intr. make or become smaller or less. 2 tr. (foll. by to) bring by force or necessity (to some undesirable state or action) (reduced them to tears; were reduced to begging). 3 tr. convert to another (esp. simpler) form (reduced it to a …
23reduce — verb /ɹɪˈdjuːs,ɹɪˈduːs/ a) To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair. Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our science to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish… …
24reduce — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. diminish, lessen, curtail, lower; allay, alleviate; set (a fracture); demote, abase, subjugate, subdue; diet, slenderize. See decrease, contraction, narrowness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To make less]… …
25reduce — Ho ēmi, ho o u uku, ho owīwī, emi; ho ēmi kino, ho ēmi momona (lose weight) …
26Cigarette smoking for weight loss — is a practice dating to early knowledge of nicotine as an appetite suppressant. Tobacco use was associated with appetite suppression among pre Columbian indigenous Americans, and old world Europeans.[1] For decades, tobacco companies have… …
27un|weight — «uhn WAYT», transitive verb. to remove or reduce the weight from: »to unweight silk. He bounces, and unweights his skis (New Yorker) …
28lose weight — verb take off weight (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑reduce, ↑melt off, ↑slim, ↑slenderize, ↑thin, ↑slim down • Ant: ↑gain ( …
29Maximum Takeoff Weight — The Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW) or Maximum Takeoff Mass of an aircraft is the maximum weight at which the pilot of the aircraft is allowed to attempt to take off, due to structural or other limits. The analogous term for rockets is Gross Lift… …
30Maximum Landing Weight — The Maximum Landing Weight (MLW) is the maximum aircraft gross weight due to design or operational limitations at which an aircraft is permitted to land. It must not exceed the maximum takeoff weight (MTOW). The operation landing weight may be… …
