Overview of noun weight

The noun weight has 8 senses

• weight -- (the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity)


• weight, free weight, exercising weight -- (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)


• weight, weightiness -- (the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed")


• weight -- (an artifact that is heavy)


• weight -- (an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the weight of responsibility")


• system of weights, weight -- (a system of units used to express the weight of something)


• weight unit, weight -- (a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan")


• weight, weighting -- ((statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance)

Overview of verb weight

The verb weight has 2 senses

• burden, burthen, weight, weight down -- (weight down with a load)


• slant, angle, weight -- (present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders")