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weight
(physical) Matter, material.
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noun
(physical) Matter, material.
A large quantity; a sum.
noun
The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
Celebration of the Eucharist.
(usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
A musical setting of parts of the mass.
noun
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
An object used to make something heavier.
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
Importance or influence.
An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
“He's working out with weights.”
(lubricants) viscosity rating.
Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
The smallest cardinality of a base.
The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
Pressure; burden.
“the weight of care or business”
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
“He was pushing weight.”
One pound (1 lb) of drugs, especially cannabis.
verb
To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
To assign weights to individual statistics.
To bias something; to slant.
To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
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He's working out with weights.
the weight of care or business
He was pushing weight.