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Weight   /weɪt/   Listen
Weight

noun
1.
The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.
2.
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.  Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight.
3.
The relative importance granted to something.  Synonym: weightiness.  "The progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
4.
An artifact that is heavy.
5.
An oppressive feeling of heavy force.
6.
A system of units used to express the weight of something.  Synonym: system of weights.
7.
A unit used to measure weight.  Synonym: weight unit.
8.
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance.  Synonym: weighting.
verb
(past & past part. weighted; pres. part. weighting)
1.
Weight down with a load.  Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down.
2.
Present with a bias.  Synonyms: angle, slant.



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"Weight" Quotes from Famous Books



... one evening, top-heavy with gin, And rehearsing his speech on the weight of the crown, He tript near a sawpit, and tumbled right in, "Sinking Fund," the last words as his noddle came down. ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... me a little punch in the ribs, playfullike, and, arter telling me I was worth my weight in gold-dust, went back to the ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... desolate region the spirits of the departed were ferried over from the land of the Franks at midnight. A strange race of fishermen performed the ghastly office. The speech of the dead was distinctly heard by the boatmen, their weight made the keel sink deep in the water; but their forms were invisible to mortal eye. Such were the marvels which an able historian, the contemporary of Belisarius, of Simplicius, and of Tribonian, ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... Aino from Japanese, the word Hogwan, which was Yoshitsune's official title, appears! The name of Hongai Sama is, however, used only in worship, not in the recounting of the myth. Mr. Batchelor, whose position as missionary to the Ainos must give his opinion great weight in such matters, thinks that the Ainos do not worship Yoshitsune. But I can only exactly record that which ...
— Aino Folk-Tales • Basil Hall Chamberlain
... from his grasp or broke under his weight; then he caught a stalwart bough under his armpit, and hung suspended for a second; and then he let himself drop and fell heavily against the table. A cry of alarm from the house warned him that his entrance had not been effected unobserved. He recovered himself with ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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