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
[ Syn: free weight , exercising weight ]
the relative importance granted to something; his opinion carries great weight; the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
[ Syn: 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
[ Syn: system of weights ]
a unit used to measure weight; he placed two weights in the scale pan
[ Syn: weight unit ]
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
[ Syn: weighting ]
weight (n.)
weight down with a load
[ Syn: burden , burthen , weight down ]
present with a bias; He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders