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- : the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- : Physics. 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.
- : Statistics. a measure of the relative importance of an item in a statistical population.
- : relative heaviness or thickness as related to warmth or to seasonal use: a winter-weight jacket.relative heaviness or thickness as related to use: a bolt of coat-weight woolen cloth.
- : Printing. the degree of blackness or boldness.
- : 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.
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- : to add weight to; load with additional weight: to weight sacks before dumping them overboard.
- : to load with mineral or other matter to increase the weight or bulk.
- : to burden with or as if with weight: Financial worries have weighted that family down for years.
- : Statistics. 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 specific weight to carry in a race: The handicapper weighted Dapper Dan with 128 pounds.
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If your body weight is drastically different from your partner’s, you could end up sleeping under a blanket that inhibits your mobility.
This water would help support any astronauts during their stay, cutting down on the weight we'd have to shift out of Earth orbit.
Though these wool mittens aren’t waterproof, they will absorb 30 percent of their weight before they start to feel damp.
The weight of the keyboard may not matter if it will be mostly stationary, but if you’ll be transporting it or using it on your lap, you’ll want to be sure it’s not dragging you down.
The new study of silk-based weight lifting strikes Symone Alexander, a chemical engineer with wide-ranging interests at Auburn University in Alabama, as “very cool.”
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
Yet we keep doing the cleanses, buying the meal replacement bars, and joining Weight Watchers.
The problem, says UC Davis physiologist and nutritionist Linda Bacon, is that very few people can lose weight and keep it off.
Then the commercial weight loss behemoths Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig joined this crowded field.
The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.
Of course, considerations of weight have to be taken into account, but the more mould round the roots the better.
Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.
The weight percentage can be found by referring to Purdy's tables, given later.
But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
All the eight planets added together only make one-seven-hundredth part of his weight.