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Weighted

adjective

Made heavy or weighted down with weariness. Synonym: leaden. "Weighted eyelids"

Adjusted to reflect value or proportion. "A law weighted in favor of landlords" , "A weighted average"

Weight

verb

(past & past part. weighted; pres. part. weighting)

Weight down with a load. Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down. Antonym: unburden.

Present with a bias. Synonyms: angle, slant.

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"Weighted" Quotes from Famous Books

... the raft was as heavily weighted as it could safely be—the water, indeed, was sweeping over it at times in such volume as to bury the men almost to their waists; and it was fortunate for its occupants that the other two boats now returned and, getting alongside, proceeded to relieve it of some of ...

— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood

... to consist mostly of oxidising flame. The air-supply does not require to be large, nor the pressure high—5 to 10 inches of water will do—but it must be very regular. The "trick" glass-blower I referred to employed a foot bellows in connection with a small weighted gasometer, the Westinghouse Company used their ordinary air-blast, and I have generally used a large gas-holder with which I am provided, which is supplied by a Roots ...

— On Laboratory Arts • Richard Threlfall

... him into a kind of enclosed seat at the end of a long rotating arm, counter-weighted at the opposite side of the aircar proper, and the whole affair swung gently in an eccentric path, around and around, and up and down as the aircar moved very ...

— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight

... took and laid it on the bridge of the bow, and held the notch and drew the string, even from the settle whereon he sat, and with straight aim shot the shaft and missed not one of the axes, beginning from the first axe-handle, and the bronze-weighted shaft passed clean through and out at the last. Then he spake ...

— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

... floors now, which we treated, upon the strength of the label, with this Prince of Pastes, "Beesene"—"guaranteed not to show wear or dirt or to grow gritty; water-proof, gravel-proof. No rug will ruck on it, no slipper stick to it. Needs no weighted brush. Self-shining. The only perfect Floor Wax known. One box will do all the floors ...

— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp

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