weight meaning
- 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
- free weight, exercising weight - The relative importance granted to something
"his opinion carries great weight"
- weightiness - 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
- system of weights - A unit used to measure weight
"he placed two weights in the scale pan"
- weight unit - (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- weighting
- Weight down with a load
- burden, burthen, weight down - Present with a bias
- slant, angle
Sounds like: wait
Derived forms: weighting, weights, weighted
See also: heavy, light, weighty
Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], bias, charge, coefficient, importance, metric, oppression, oppressiveness, physical property, predetermine, repressiveness, sports equipment, system of measurement, unit, unit of measurement
Encyclopedia: Weight
[Business]
noun, verb
■ noun
MARKET WEIGHT, NET WEIGHT
1 (abbr wt) [U,C]
how heavy sb/sth is, which can be measured in, for example, kilograms or pounds:
It is about 70 kilos in weight.
Bananas are sold by weight.
This laptop has a weight of just 4 kilos.
goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes gross weight (= including the vehicle and the contents)
◆ Meat must be marked with its net weight, excluding packaging.
2 [U]
the fact of being heavy:
The pillars have to support the weight of the roof.
3 [C]
an object that is heavy:
Lifting heavy weights can damage your back.
4 [C,U]
a unit or system of units by which weight is measured:
tables of weights and measures imperial/metric weight
5 [U]
importance, influence or strength:
His opinion carries weight with the boss.
The weight of evidence indicates that these products present a risk to children.
IDIOMS
throw/put your weight behind sth
to use all your influence and power to support sth:
The directors have thrown their weight behind the takeover bid.
The government has thrown its weight behind the anti-pollution campaign.
PULL verb, THROW, THROW
■ verb [+ obj]
1
to give different values to things to show how important you think each of them is compared with the others:
The results of the survey were weighted to allow for variations in the sample.
2 (usually be weighted)
to arrange sth in such a way that a particular person or thing has an advantage or a disadvantage:
The proposal is heavily weighted towards smaller businesses.
The new pay levels are weighted against part-time workers.
Critics say that the tax cuts are weighted in favour of large businesses.
[Electronics]
1. The amount of gravitational pull on a body or particle.
2. Extra significance given to a term or value. See, for example, WEIGHTED TERM.
3. The dot-to-space ratio in a Morse-code signal.
[Finance]
Either Gross Weight, Net Weight, or Tare Weight.
[Medicine]
n
1 : the amount that a thing weighs
2 : a unit of weight or mass
Examples
More: Next- the timber carries the whole weight of the roof.
- the ice is too thin to bear your weight.
- a set of calibrated weights will be needed.
- your representations have weight with me.
- hearn felt the weight and resistance.
