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

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