- the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass.
- a system of units for expressing heaviness or mass: avoirdupois weight.
- a unit of heaviness or mass: The pound is a common weight in English-speaking countries.
- a body of determinate mass, as of metal, for using on a balance or scale in weighing objects, substances, etc.
- a specific quantity of a substance that is determined by weighing or that weighs a fixed amount: a half-ounce weight of gold dust.
- any heavy load, mass, or object: Put down that weight and rest your arms.
- an object used or useful solely because of its heaviness: the weights of a clock.
- a mental or moral burden, as of care, sorrow, or responsibility: Knowing you are safe takes a weight off my mind.
- importance, moment, consequence, or effective influence: an opinion of great weight.
- a measure of the relative importance of an item in a statistical population.
- (of clothing, textiles, etc.)
- relative heaviness or thickness as related to warmth or to seasonal use (often used in combination): a winter-weight jacket.
- relative heaviness or thickness as related to use: a bolt of coat-weight woolen cloth.
- (of type) the degree of blackness or boldness.
- (especially in boxing) a division or class to which a contestant belongs according to how much he weighs: two brothers who fight professionally in the same weight.
- the total amount the jockey, saddle, and leads must weigh on a racehorse during a race, according to the conditions of the race: Jacinto has a weight of 122 pounds in the seventh race.
- the stress or accent value given a sound, syllable, or word.
- to add weight to; load with additional weight: to weight sacks before dumping them overboard.
- to load (fabrics, threads, etc.) with mineral or other matter to increase the weight or bulk.
- to burden with or as if with weight (often followed by down): Financial worries have weighted that family down for years.
- to give a statistical weight to.
- to bias or slant toward a particular goal or direction; manipulate: The teacher weighted the test so students who had read both books would make the highest marks.
- to assign (a racehorse) a specific weight to carry in a race: The handicapper weighted Dapper Dan with 128 pounds.
- according to measurement of heaviness or mass: Rates are determined by weight.
- to have importance or significance; influence: Her opinion is certain to carry weight.
- to contribute one's rightful share of work to a project or job: We will finish in time if we each pull our weight.
- to use one's power and influence, especially beyond the bounds of propriety, to secure some personal gain.
- a measure of the heaviness of an object; the amount anything weighs
- the vertical force experienced by a mass as a result of gravitation. It equals the mass of the body multiplied by the acceleration of free fall. Its units are units of force (such as newtons or poundals) but is often given as a mass unit (kilogram or pound)
- a system of units used to express the weight of a substance
- a unit used to measure weight
- any mass or heavy object used to exert pressure or weigh down
- an oppressive force
- any heavy load
- the main or greatest force: preponderance
- importance, influence, or consequence
- one of a set of coefficients assigned to items of a frequency distribution that are analysed in order to represent the relative importance of the different items
- the apparent blackness of a printed typeface
- a pound of a drug, esp cannabis
- to do one's full or proper share of a task
- to act in an overauthoritarian or aggressive manner
- to add weight to
- to burden or oppress
- to add importance, value, etc, to one side rather than another; bias; favour
- to attach a weight or weights to
- to make (fabric, threads, etc) heavier by treating with mineral substances, etc
