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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

... to Rupert to offer more prospect of success than any other, and on the following morning the caravan started, the camels now carrying scarce half the weight with which they had left Korti. As the sheik had learned from his kinsman the name of the oasis to which the troop had been sent, he had no difficulty in obtaining from some of the tribesmen in the city precise directions as to the route to be pursued, ...

— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty

... to differ from you. This letter is, in my belief, perfectly genuine. It supplies a most important link in the chain of evidence, and I shall give it the weight it deserves. But enough—will you ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

... might have been President of the United States if his party ever could have been persuaded to nominate him. He might have been one of the great Chief Justices of the Supreme Court if a President could have been persuaded to appoint him. He might have given to the United States Senate that weight and influence which have disappeared from it, if he had had a passion for public service. He might have been Secretary of State in the most momentous period of American foreign relations if a certain homely instinct in Mr. Harding had not led him to prefer the less brilliant ...

— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous

... the tax for such an evening, she found one or two such very serious points to consider, as made her feel, that even her happiness must have some alloy. Her father—and Harriet. She could not be alone without feeling the full weight of their separate claims; and how to guard the comfort of both to the utmost, was the question. With respect to her father, it was a question soon answered. She hardly knew yet what Mr. Knightley would ask; but a very ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... thee best nor worst; For be ye blest or be ye curst, Ye know it is no whit my sleight To be a judge in matters of weight. It behoveth no pedlars nor proctors To take on them judgment as doctors: But if your minds be only set To work for soul-health, ye be well met: For each of you somewhat doth show, That souls toward heaven ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley

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