weight
Noun:
- A measure of heaviness: The force exerted on a body by gravity, often measured in units like kilograms or pounds.
- A heavy object: An object used for its heaviness, such as in exercise, measurement, or to hold something down.
- Importance, influence, or seriousness: The degree of significance, value, or pressure something has.
- A feeling of burden: An oppressive or heavy feeling, as of responsibility or worry.
- A statistical coefficient: A factor assigned to data to indicate its relative importance in a calculation.
Verb:
- To add heaviness to: To make something heavier by adding a mass.
- To bias or structure: To arrange or present something in a way that favors a particular outcome.
Noun (Physical heaviness):
- The weight of the suitcase was over the airline's limit.
- He lifted a weight of 50 kilograms at the gym.
Noun (Importance/Influence):
- Her opinion carries a lot of weight in the committee.
- We must consider the weight of the evidence.
Noun (Burden):
- The weight of his responsibilities kept him awake at night.
Verb (To add heaviness):
- They weighted the fishing net so it would sink.
- The fabric is weighted to make it hang better.
Verb (To bias):
- The survey was weighted to represent all age groups accurately.
"To carry weight": To have importance, influence, or credibility.
- His many years of experience carry weight in these discussions.
"To pull one's weight": To do one's fair share of the work.
- Everyone on the team needs to pull their weight for us to succeed.
"To throw one's weight around": To use one's power or influence in an aggressive or bullying way.
- The new manager started throwing his weight around immediately.
"A weight off one's mind/shoulders": A relief from worry or responsibility.
- Finishing the project was a weight off my shoulders.
Weighty (adj): Having great weight; serious and important.
- They discussed the weighty matters of state.
Weightless (adj): Having little or no apparent weight, especially in a state of free fall.
- Astronauts experience a weightless environment.
Weighting (n): An adjustment made to statistical data to make it more representative.
- The data analysis includes a weighting for regional population.
Overweight (adj): Above a weight considered normal or desirable.
- Underweight (adj): Below a weight considered normal or desirable.
- Noun (Mass): Heaviness, mass, load.
- Noun (Importance): Significance, consequence, import, gravity.
- Noun (Burden): Load, pressure, onus.
- Verb (Add heaviness): Load, ballast.
- Verb (Bias): Bias, slant, skew.
Weight down: To burden or make heavy.
- The branches were weighted down with snow.
Weight against: To consider as a factor opposing something.
- The risks must be weighted against the potential benefits.
Worth one's weight in gold: Extremely valuable or useful.
- A reliable assistant is worth their weight in gold.
By weight: Measured according to heaviness.
- The spices are sold by weight.
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- a unit used to measure weight
- he placed two weights in the scale pan
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- bowed down by the weight of responsibility
- an artifact that is heavy
- the relative importance granted to something
- his opinion carries great weight
- the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
- 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 vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- present with a bias
- He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders
- weight down with a load