weight

/weษชt/

IPA: /W EY1 T/

noun
  1. 1

    (physical) Matter, material.

  2. 2

    A large quantity; a sum.

noun
  1. 1

    The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.

  2. 2

    Celebration of the Eucharist.

  3. 3

    (usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.

  4. 4

    A musical setting of parts of the mass.

noun
  1. 1

    The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

  2. 2

    An object used to make something heavier.

  3. 3

    A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.

  4. 4

    Importance or influence.

  5. 5

    An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.

    โ€œHe's working out with weights.โ€

  6. 6

    (lubricants) viscosity rating.

  7. 7

    Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)

  8. 8

    (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

  9. 9

    A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.

  10. 10

    The smallest cardinality of a base.

  11. 11

    The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.

  12. 12

    (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.

  13. 13

    (visual art) The illusion of mass.

  14. 14

    (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

  15. 15

    Pressure; burden.

    โ€œthe weight of care or businessโ€

  16. 16

    The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

  17. 17

    Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

    โ€œHe was pushing weight.โ€

  18. 18

    One pound (1 lb) of drugs, especially cannabis.

verb
  1. 1

    To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

  2. 2

    To load, burden or oppress someone.

  3. 3

    To assign weights to individual statistics.

  4. 4

    To bias something; to slant.

  5. 5

    To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

  6. 6

    To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mass, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weight