weight¹ /wāt/

1. The heaviness of a thing, esp as determined by weighing
2. Quantity as determined in this way
3. The force with which a body is attracted to the earth, measured by the product of the mass and the acceleration
4. A mass of metal adjusted to a standard and used for finding weight
5. A method of estimating, or a unit of, weight
6. The amount something ought to weigh
7. A standard amount that a boxer, etc, should weigh
8. (in pl) weightlifting or weight-training
9. Scales (Spenser)
10. A heavy object
11. Anything heavy or oppressive
12. A ponderous mass
13. Pressure
14. Importance
15. Power
16. Impressiveness
17. Preponderance or bulk (eg of evidence)
18. The frequency of an item in a frequency distribution or a number indicating this

1. To make heavier
2. To attach or add a weight or weights to
3. To hold down in this way
4. To add substance or solidity to
5. To increase the weight of (a fabric) by adding chemicals
6. To assign a handicap weight to (a horse; also figurative)
7. To oppress, burden
8. To give (a law or administrative arrangement) a bias against or in favour of a certain group, etc
9. To assign greater value to (one factor) than to another
10. To attach numbers indicating their relative frequency to (items in a frequency distribution) (statistics)

weighˈtily adverb

weighˈtiness noun

weightˈing noun

A weighting allowance

weightˈless adjective

weightˈlessly adverb

weightˈlessness noun

The condition of a freely falling body at the beginning of the fall when its inertia exactly balances the gravitational force, or that of a space traveller and his or her unpowered spacecraft in orbit beyond the earth's atmosphere

weighˈty adjective

1. Heavy
2. Important
3. Having great influence
4. Being the fruit of judicious consideration and hence worthy of attention
5. Worrying
6. Severe (Shakespeare, Timon of Athens III.5.102)

weighted average noun (statistics)

The average reached when some factor of special importance relating to the variable is included in the calculation along with the frequency factor

weighting allowance noun

A salary differential to balance the higher cost of living in a particular area

weightˈlifter noun

weightˈlifting noun

A sport in which competitors (attempt to) lift and hold above their heads a barbell made increasingly heavy as the competition progresses

weight of metal noun (rare or old)

The total weight of the projectiles thrown at one discharge from a ship's guns

weightˈ-train intransitive verb

weightˈ-training noun

Physical training by means of a series of pulleys, levers, etc with adjustable weights, for building up individual muscle groups

weightˈ-watcher noun

A person, typically female, who is attempting to reduce weight by careful dieting, esp one who attends meetings of an association of people similarly engaged

weightˈ-watching noun

by, in or with weight (Shakespeare)

Fully

gain (or put on) weight

To increase one's body weight, get fatter

lose weight

To decrease one's body weight, get thinner

throw one's weight about

1. To over-exercise one's authority
2. To domineer

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