Weight - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |weɪt|  American pronunciation of the word weight
Brit.  |weɪt|  British pronunciation of the word weight

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 (syn: weighting)

verb

- weight down with a load (syn: burden, burthen, weight down)
- present with a bias (syn: angle, slant)

Extra examples

Please indicate your height and weight on the form.

Her weight is 105 pounds.

The boat sank under the weight of the cargo.

Those columns have to be strong enough to support the weight of the roof.

He stays in good shape by lifting weights.

I use pie weights to keep the pie crust from bubbling when I bake it.

I weighted the fishing line with a lead sinker.

...weighted the car with a ton of furniture and then headed off for college...

The table collapsed under the weight of the food.

This is an argument of weight.

The weight of the evidence is against the defendant.

The strokes should come with greater weight.

Fishing nets were weighted with lead.

The House of Commons is not weighted with nominees of the landed class.

The law weighted towards landlords.

Phrasal verbs

weight down  — weight down with a load

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: weight
he/she/it: weights
present participle: weighting
past tense: weighted
past participle: weighted
noun
singular: weight
plural: weights
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