weight
Nouns
- (n) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- (n) 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 exercising weight, free weight,
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(n) the relative importance granted to something
- his opinion carries great weight
- the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
- (n) an artifact that is heavy
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(n) an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- bowed down by the weight of responsibility
- (n) a system of units used to express the weight of something system of weights,
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(n) a unit used to measure weight
- he placed two weights in the scale pan
- (n) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance weighting,
Verbs
- (v) weight down with a load burden, burthen, weight down,
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(v) present with a bias
- He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders