weight

Plural: weights

Noun

• the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
• 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
• the relative importance granted to something
  • "his opinion carries great weight"
  • "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
• an artifact that is heavy
• an oppressive feeling of heavy force
  • "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
• a system of units used to express the weight of something
• a unit used to measure weight
  • "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
• (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
• The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
• An object used to make something heavier.
• A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• Importance or influence.
• An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
• Viscosity rating.
• Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
• Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
• Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• The smallest cardinality of a base.
• The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• The illusion of mass.
• The thickness and opacity of paint.
• The thickness of yarn.
• Pressure; burden.
• The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
• Money.
• Weight class
• Emphasis applied to a given criterion.

Verb

Verb Forms: weighted, weighting, weights

• To add heaviness or importance to something.
• weight down with a load
• present with a bias
• To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
• To load, burden or oppress someone.
• To assign weights to individual statistics.
• To bias something; to slant.
• To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
• To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Examples

• font weight
• He was pushing weight.
• He would weight his Scrabble plays with high-scoring letters whenever possible.
• He's working out with weights.
• I'm the same weight as I was ten years ago.
• the weight of care or business

Synonyms

angle, burden, burthen, exercising weight, free weight, slant, system of weights, weight down, weight unit, weightiness, weighting, mass

Antonyms

unburden

Related Words

weigh