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Definition of 'weight'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) weight
the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.

2.  weight
the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity.

3.  weight
a system of units for expressing heaviness or mass: avoirdupois weight.

4.  weight
a unit of heaviness or mass, as the pound.

5.  weight
a body of determinate mass, as of metal, for using on a balance or scale in weighing objects, substances, etc.

6.  weight
a specific quantity of a substance that is determined by weighing or that weighs a fixed amount.

7.  weight
any heavy load, mass, or object.

8.  weight
excess fat; corpulence:
to lose weight.

9.  weight
an object used or useful solely because of its heaviness:
the weights of a clock.

10.  weight
a mental or moral burden, as of care, sorrow, or responsibility.

11.  weight
importance, moment, consequence, or effective influence:
an opinion of great weight.

12.  weight
a barbell, dumbbell, or similar heavy apparatus lifted or held for exercise, body building, or in athletic competition.

13.  weight
a replaceable metal disk of specific heaviness fastened to each end of a barbell.

14.  weight
a measure of the relative importance of an item in a statistical population.

15.  weight
(of clothing, textiles, etc.)

16.  weight
relative heaviness or thickness as related to general or seasonal use (often used in combination):
a winter-weight jacket.

17.  weight
(of type) the degree of blackness or boldness.

18.  weight
(esp. in boxing) a division or class to which a contestant or competitor belongs according to body weight.

19.  weight
the total amount the jockey, saddle, and leads must weigh on a racehorse during a race.

20. (v.t.) weight
to add weight to; load with additional weight.

21.  weight
to load (fabrics, threads, etc.) with mineral or other matter to increase the weight or bulk.

22.  weight
to burden with or as if with weight (often fol. by down).

23.  weight
to give a statistical weight to.

24.  weight
to bias or slant toward a particular goal or direction; manipulate.

25.  weight
to assign (a racehorse) a specific weight to carry in a race.

26.  weight
carry weight, to have importance or significance; influence.

27.  weight
pull one's (own) weight, to contribute one's share of work to a project or job.

28.  weight
throw one's weight around or about, to use one's power and influence, esp. improperly for personal gain.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME (n.); OE (ge)wiht (c. MHG gewichte, ON vētt); see weigh , -th¹)

Definition of 'weight'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) weight
the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

2. (noun) weight, free weight, exercising weight
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

3. (noun) weight, weightiness
the relative importance granted to something
"his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"

4. (noun) weight
an artifact that is heavy

5. (noun) weight
an oppressive feeling of heavy force
"bowed down by the weight of responsibility"

6. (noun) system of weights, weight
a system of units used to express the weight of something

7. (noun) weight unit, weight
a unit used to measure weight
"he placed two weights in the scale pan"

8. (verb) weight, weighting
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

9. (verb) burden, burthen, weight, weight down
weight down with a load

10. (verb) slant, angle, weight
present with a bias
"He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"

Definition of 'weight'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) weight
how heavy sb or sth is
The doctor checked his height and weight.; an object with a weight of 68 pounds/kilos

2.  weight
put on weight/gain weight
(of a person) to become heavier
She's put on a little weight.

3.  weight
lose weight
(of a person) to become lighter
Did you lose some weight?

4.  weight
the fact of being heavy
The roof collapsed under the weight of the snow.

5.  weight
a weight off sb's mind
a worry that has ended

6.  weight
the importance and influence that a person or idea has
The teacher's words carried a lot of weight with me.

7.  weight
throw your weight behind
to use your influence to support
The Senator threw his weight behind the candidate.

8.  weight
a heavy object that you lift or push for exercise
He used the weights in the gym.

9.  weight
lift weights
to do exercises with weights

Definition of 'weight'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) weight
the quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc

2. (verb) weight
the quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds

3. (verb) weight
hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business

4. (verb) weight
importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight

5. (verb) weight
a scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight

6. (verb) weight
a ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight

7. (verb) weight
a definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight

8. (verb) weight
the resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it

9. (verb) weight
to load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle

10. (verb) weight
to assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight

Translation of 'weight'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the amount which a person or thing weighs He's put on a lot of weight (= got much fatter) over the years.
Afrikaans: gewig	Arabic: وَزْن	Bulgarian: тегло
Brazilian: peso	Czech: váha	German: das Gewicht
Danish: vægt	Greek: βάρος	Spanish: peso
Estonian: kaal	Farsi: وزن	Finnish: paino
French: poids	Hebrew: מִשקָל	Hindi: वजन
Croatian: težiti	Hungarian: súly	Indonesian: bobot
Icelandic: þyngd	Italian: peso	Japanese: 重さ
Korean: 무게, 중량	Lithuanian: svoris	Latvian: svars
Malay: berat	Dutch: gewicht	Norwegian: vekt, tyngde
Polish: waga	Persian: وزن	Pashto: تول، وزن، درنښت، دتول سيت
Portuguese: peso	Romanian: greutate, povară	Russian: вес
Slovak: váha	Slovenian: teža	Serbian: težina
Swedish: vikt	Thai: น้ำหนัก	Turkish: ağırlık, kilo
Taiwanese: 重量	Ukrainian: вага; маса	Urdu: وزن
Vietnamese: trọng lượng	Chinese: 重量
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