weight
see also: Weight
Etymology
Weight
Proper noun
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see also: Weight
Etymology
From Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht ("weight"), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz "weight"; compare *weganą ("to move"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.
Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht ("weight"), Saterland Frisian Wächte, Gewicht ("weight"), Western Frisian gewicht, Dutch gewicht, nds-de Wicht, Gewicht ("weight"), German Wucht, Gewicht ("weight").
Pronunciation Nounweight
- The force an object exerts on the object it is on due to gravitation.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (figurative) Importance or influence.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
- 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
- Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
- (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- He's working out with weights.
- (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- font weight
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- (figurative) Pressure; burden.
- the weight of care or business
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iii], page 309 ↗, column 2:
- The waight of this ſad time we muſt obey […]
- 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC ↗:
- For the public all this weight he bears.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- He was pushing weight.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103 ↗:
- The three of us were hanging out rapping in Hamilton projects with some niggahs Pimp had got tight with on Rikers Island. Them fools had done a push-in and took over some old lady's apartment, and they were in there cutting crack and mixing weight.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement, page 5:
- [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
- (criminal slang, dated) Money.
- 1974, Martin R. Haskell, Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency, page 96:
- No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.
- Weight class
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC ↗:
- You’re no match for ’em. You ain’t up to their weight. It’s like little Black Strap standing up to Tom Spring,—the Black’s a pretty fighter but, Law bless you, his arm ain’t long enough to touch Tom,—and I tell you, you’re going it with fellers beyond your weight.
- (especially in computing) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
- 2024, Laura Masbruch, Pasta Land:
- “Logits” are the vectors of weights.
- French: poids
- German: Gewicht
- Italian: peso
- Portuguese: peso
- Russian: вес
- Spanish: peso, pesadez, pesantez
- French: graisse
weight (weights, present participle weighting; simple past and past participle weighted)
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- (transitive, sport) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- French: alourdir, lester, appesantir
- German: beschweren, gewichten
- Italian: appesantire
- Italian: gravare
Weight
Proper noun
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