Skip to definition.  Noun: weight  weyt   1. The vertical force
exerted by a mass as a result of gravity     - free weight,
exercising weight   3. The relative importance granted to
something     "his opinion carries great weight";     -
weightiness   4. An artifact that is heavy   5. An oppressive
feeling of heavy force     "bowed down by the weight of
responsibility"   6. A system of units used to express the
weight of something     - system of weights   7. A unit used to
measure weight     "he placed two weights in the scale pan";
- weight unit     - weighting   9. (typography) the boldness of
a font; the relative thickness of its strokes Verb: weight  weyt
- burden, burthen, weight down   2. Present with a bias     -
slant, angle   3. (mathematics) assign weights to individual
terms or statistics  Sounds like: waists, wastes  Derived forms:
weights, weighted, weighting  See also: heavy, light  Type of:
artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], bias, charge, coefficient,
importance, metric, oppression,