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weak(2) (iou) and Services Hospital (health)


weak(2) (iou)



weak adjective & noun. [wi:k]
[Old English wac corresp. to Old Norse veikr, Old Saxon wek, Old High German weih (Dutch week, German weich soft), from Germanic, from base meaning 'yield, give way'. Reinforced in Middle English by forms from Old Norse.]
A. adjective.
Pliant, flexible, not rigid. OE-E16.
Insignificant, mean; of little account or worth; inconsiderable. OE-E19.
Lacking courage or strength of purpose or will; not steadfast, wavering. OE.
b. Indicative of weakness of character. M17.
c. Unable to control one's emotions, unduly swayed by grief, compassion, or affection. M18.
a. Lacking in strength and skill as an opponent or enemy; having little or inferior fighting power. Also (occas.) more widely, poorly supplied with people or things of a specified kind. ME.
b. Lacking in skill as a competitor, athlete, etc.; (of an action) exhibiting lack of skill. E19.
a. Physically lacking in power; unable to exert great muscular force; deficient in physical vigour or robustness; lacking in energy; feeble, infirm. ME.
V. Woolf He despises me for being too weak to play. M. Holroyd He felt so weak..that he found it impossible to lift a match.
b. Exhausted; faint. Now chiefly dial. E18.
c. Performed with or exhibiting a lack of muscular strength. L18.
Lacking in power or vigour, not intense; lacking in force, not strong; feeble, soft; (of a person) lacking conviction, unsure; (of the pulse or respiration) having little force; (now rare) (of a disease etc.) not severe or acute. ME.
C. Ryan The signals they received..were so weak as to be barely audible. C. Thubron There must be a power shortage..the light is so weak.
a. (Of the mind or mental faculties) deficient in power; not retentive; without force of intellect or strength of mind; easily deceived, credulous. LME.
b. Lacking mental power (in one's intellect, the brain, etc.). M17.
Lacking in ability, ill-qualified, unskilled or inefficient in, of or to do something. Also, (of a quality, attribute, etc.) held to a low degree. LME.
Business Franchise Board members who..have expertise in areas where you feel weak.
b. Of a literary work or composition: showing little evidence of ability. rare. E18.
Having little control or authority over others. Formerly also, (of power) little, diminished. LME.
Lacking in material strength; unsound, insecure; spec. (of a fortress, town, military position, etc.) not having powerful defences; easy to take or invade. LME.
Tennyson The gate, Half-parted from a weak and scolding hinge, Stuck.
b. Chess. Of a pawn: insufficiently protected against capture. Of a square: difficult to defend. M19.
Of a bodily organ or its function: deficient in functional strength. L15.
D. H. Lawrence I've got a weak chest.
a. (Of an argument, evidence, proof, etc.) not convincing; (of a case) ill-supported by evidence or precedent. M16.
B. Neil I listened to his excuses..getting weaker and weaker.
b. Of an action etc.: ineffectual. L16.
a. Of a solution, a drink, etc.: containing a low proportion of an essential (esp. dissolved) substance; diluted; spec. in Chemistry (of an acid or alkali) only partially dissociated in aqueous solution into anions and cations. L16.
A. Lambert The Head and her Deputy sat..over a pot of weak coffee.
b. Of flour: made with less glutinous wheat so as to rise less, be less absorbent, etc. L19.
Lacking in solidity or firmness; slight; easily broken, fragile, frail. L16.
Not vivid, not strongly marked, faint; Photography (of a negative) not having marked contrast of light and shade. L16.
(Of a syllable or musical beat) unstressed, unaccented; (of stress) having relatively little force. M17.
Cards. Not composed of commanding cards; not having commanding cards (in a specified suit). L17.
a. Of language, an expression, a word: lacking in force or emphasis. L18.
b. Math. Of an entity or concept: implying less than others of its kind; defined by fewer conditions. M20.
Commerce.
a. Of prices, a market, etc.: having a downward tendency, not firm; fluctuating, depressed. M19.
b. Of money or stock: insufficient to meet a demand or to carry on operations. L19.
Grammar.
a. Of a Germanic noun or adjective: belonging to a declension in which the original Germanic stem ended in n. M19.
b. Of a Germanic verb: forming the past tense and past participle by the addition of a suffix. Also (occas.), used to designate a particular verb-type in a non-Germanic language. M19.
a. (Of a drug, chemical reagent, etc.) not powerful in operative effect; (of a lens) having little magnifying power. L19.
b. Physics. Of a field: having a low strength, exerting only a small force on particles, charges, etc. E20.
c. Physics. Designating the weakest of the known kinds of force between particles, which acts only at distances less than about 1015 cm, is very much weaker than the electromagnetic and the strong interactions, and conserves neither strangeness, parity, nor isospin. M20.
Special collocations, comb., & phrases: the weaker sex: see SEX noun. the weaker vessel (long joc.) a wife, a female partner. weak ending Prosody an unstressed syllable in a normally stressed place at the end of an iambic line. weakest link = weak link below. weak grade Philology the reduced ablaut-form. weak-handed adjective (a) having weak hands; fig. not capable of effective exertion; (b) = SHORT-HANDED 2. weak-headed adjective lacking strength of mind or purpose. weak-hearted adjective (rare) faint-hearted; soft-hearted. weak interaction Physics interaction at short distances between subatomic particles mediated by the weak force (see sense 21c above). weak mixture = lean mixture s.v. LEAN adjective. weak moment a time when one is unusually careless, compliant, or temptable. weak link the weakest or least dependable of a number of interdependent items. weak point (a) a point or feature where a thing is defective or unsound; a place where defences are assailable; (b) a flaw or weakness in a person's argument, character, or ability, or in a person's resistance to temptation. weak side the defective, unsound, or vulnerable aspect of a person or thing. weak-sighted adjective having poor sight. weak sister colloq. an ineffectual or unreliable person; a person of weak character. weak spot = weak point above.
b. absol. as noun. A weak person. Usu. collect. pl., the class of weak people. OE.
weakish adjective L16.

Services Hospital (health)


The Services Hospital is a hospital in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.