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weight

/weɪt/

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Use the same vowel as “day.”

Use one syllable with a long a vowel. The gh is silent, so the sound sequence moves directly from that vowel to the final t.

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“The label shows the package weight.”

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What does weight mean?

noun

  1. The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
  2. An object used to make something heavier.
  3. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
More meanings (30)

noun

  1. (figuratively) Importance or influence.
  2. An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
  3. Ellipsis of free weight, as contrasted with the weights inside an exercise machine.
  4. Viscosity rating.
  5. Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
  6. Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
  7. Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
  8. A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
  9. Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
  10. The smallest cardinality of a base.
  11. The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
  12. The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
  13. The illusion of mass.
  14. The thickness and opacity of paint.
  15. The thickness of yarn.
  16. (figuratively) Pressure; burden.
  17. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
  18. (slang) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
  19. (slang) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
  20. Weight class.
  21. Used as part of compound words for weight class titles, e.g. heavyweight, flyweight.
  22. (dated) Money.

verb

  1. To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
  2. To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
  3. To load, burden or oppress someone.
  4. To assign weights to individual statistics.
  5. To bias something; to slant.
  6. To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
  7. To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
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The invigorating influences of this excess of oxygen upon the Martians indisputably did much to counterbalance the increased weight of their bodies.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe war of the worldsProject Gutenberg ebook #36
The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
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They seemed content to perch tranquilly on the river bank, and leave him bowed down by the weight of a great problem.
Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarProject Gutenberg ebook #73
But here reality, by the neutralizations of attractive forces, produced men in whom nothing had any weight, and who weighed nothing themselves.
Jules VerneFrom the Earth to the moon; and, round the moonProject Gutenberg ebook #83
The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheusProject Gutenberg ebook #84