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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

... mad. You've no idea! she's so jealous that life is not only a burden, it's a weight that's smashing me flatter every day. I'm getting a gray hair and a wrinkle, and all because of her. And ...

— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner

... was a cross that must be borne by some one on the island, by "one of us." Was she, Hermione, picked out to bear that cross? Surely God mistook the measure of her strength. If He had He would soon know how feeble she was. When Maurice had died, somehow she had endured it. She had staggered under the weight laid upon her, but she had upheld it. But now she was much older, and she felt as if suffering, instead of strengthening, had weakened her character, as if she had not ...

— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens

... her, only half an hour. Elfrida, when she wished to be exact with her vanity, told herself that it could not have been more than twenty-five minutes. She wished for particular reasons to be exact with it now, and she did not fail to give proper weight to the fact that Frank Parke had never seen her before that day. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Dial was well enough known to be of the monde, and rich enough to be as bourgeois as anybody. Therefore some of the ...

— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)

... not seen it, and ear hath not heard, Yet all my spirit with longing is stirred; Oh, glory exceeding my heart's utmost pleading! Eternal, eternal the weight of ...

— Gathering Jewels - The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. • James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles

... years ago had an excellent opportunity of judging the sincerity of Parisian affection, and of sounding the depth and unselfishness of the love that this fickle city gives us in return for our homage. Not for one moment did she hesitate, but threw the whole weight of her influence and wit into the scale for Spain. If there is not at this moment a European alliance against America it is not from any lack of effort on her ...

— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory

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