Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: Summarize the concepts of infection prevention and control. Identify the economic and social impact of healthcare-associated infections on individuals, their designated support persons, and the community.
A 700lb or 900lb gorilla would be equally entitled to sleep wherever he wants to. Interestingly, the Wikipedia entry for Gorilla states that the average male gorilla weighs about 400lb, occasionally reaching 500lb in the wild. Only obese gorillas in captivity have attained weights of 600lb. So the number doesn't even seem to be related to gorilla biology (except that it is safely larger than any known gorilla, save King Kong).
1 linking verb (+ noun) to have a particular weight How much do you weigh (= how heavy are you)? She weighs 60 kilos. The average male tiger weighs around 200 kg. These cases weigh a ton (= are very heavy). 2 [transitive] weigh somebody/something/yourself to measure how heavy somebody/something is, usually by using scales He weighed himself on the bathroom scales. She weighed the stone in her hand (= estimated how heavy it was by holding it).