1. The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
   "The weight of the books caused the shelf to sag"
    
2. An artifact that is heavy
   "He used a weight to hold down the tarp in the wind"
    
3. A unit used to measure weight
   "he placed two weights in the scale pan"; "The recipe listed ingredients by weight units";
   - weight unit
    
4. The relative importance granted to something
   "his opinion carries great weight";
   - weightiness
    
5. 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
   "He preferred using free weights over machines for building muscle"; "He used exercising weights to build muscle strength";
   - free weight, exercising weight
    
6. An oppressive feeling of heavy force
   "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
    
7. A system of units used to express the weight of something
   "The metric system is a widely used system of weights";
   - system of weights
    
8. (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
   "The survey results used population weight to ensure accurate representation";
   - weighting
    
9. (typography) the boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes
   "The designer chose a heavier weight for the headings to make them stand out"

1. Add a heavy load; increase the weight of a load
   "They weighted down the tarp with rocks to prevent it from blowing away";
   - burden, burthen, weight down
    
2. Present with a bias
   "The report weighted the evidence to support the company's position";
   - slant, angle
    
3. (mathematics) assign weights to individual terms or statistics
   "The researcher weighted the survey responses based on demographic factors"

Sounds like: waists, wastes

Derived forms: weighted, weights, weighting

See also: heavy, light

Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], bias, charge, coefficient, importance, importancy [archaic], metric, oppression, oppressiveness, physical property, predetermine, repressiveness, skew, sports equipment, system of measurement, unit, unit of measurement

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