weight
weight
(weɪt )Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense weights , present participle weighting , past tense, past participle weighted
1. variable noun [golwith poss]
The weight of a person or thing is how heavy they are, measured in units such as kilograms, pounds, or tons.
What is your height and weight?
This reduced the weight of the load.
Turkeys can reach enormous weights of up to 50 pounds. [+ of]
2. uncountable noun [with poss]
A person's or thing's weight is the fact that they are very heavy.
His weight was harming his health.
Despite the vehicle's size and weight it is not difficult to drive.
3. singular noun
If you move your weight, you change position so that most of the pressure of your body is on a particular part of your body.
He shifted his weight from one foot to the other.
He kept the weight from his left leg.
4. countable noun [usually plural]
5. countable noun
Weights are metal objects which weigh a known amount and which are used on a set of scales to weigh other things.
6. countable noun
Straining to lift heavy weights can lead to a rise in blood pressure.
7. verb
8. verb
If you weight things, you give them different values according to how important or significant they are.
...a computer program which weights the different transitions according to their likelihood. [VERB noun]
This takes account of the number of countries in which a company wins approval for a new drug, weighted by the size of each country's market. [VERB-ed]
9. variable noun
If something is given a particular weight, it is given a particular value according to how important or significant it is.
The scientists involved put different weight on the conclusions of different models. [+ on]
We had this understanding that courses were roughly the same weight.
10. uncountable noun [the NOUN of noun]
11. uncountable noun
If someone or something gives weight to what a person says, thinks, or does, they emphasize its significance.
The fact that he is gone has given more weight to fears that he may try to launch a civil war.
Do you think, perhaps, that what happened today might lend weight to that criticism?
12. uncountable noun
If you give something or someone weight, you consider them to be very important or influential in a particular situation.
Consumers generally place more weight on negative information than on the positive when deciding what to buy. [+ on]
...the overwhelming weight Freud assigned parents in our development.
13. singular noun
If you feel a weight on you, you have a problem or a responsibility that is difficult for you to manage and that you are very worried about.
The relief was indescribable. It was freedom after years of slavery. A great weight lifted from me.
14. See also dead weight, weighting
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