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21weight — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. heaviness; heft; overweight, avoirdupois, tonnage, poundage; gravity; ballast; measurement; importance, influence; significance; pressure, load, burden. See quantity. v. ballast, load, burden; favor;… …
22weight — I. noun Etymology: Middle English wight, weght, from Old English wiht; akin to Old Norse vætt weight, Old English wegan to weigh Date: before 12th century 1. a. the amount that a thing weighs b. (1) the standard or established amount that a thing …
23weight — noun 1》 a body s relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; heaviness. ↘Physics the force exerted on the mass of a body by a gravitational field. ↘the quality of being heavy. ↘a unit or… …
24weight — 1 /weIt/ noun 1 WHAT SB/STH WEIGHS (C, U) how heavy something is when measured by a particular system: The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds. 2 HOW FAT (U) how heavy and especially how fat someone is: A lot of teenage… …
25weight — I n. amount weighed, heaviness 1) to gain, put on weight 2) to lose, take off weight 3) dead; gross; minimum; net weight 4) atomic; avoirdupois; birth; molecular weight 5) under a weight (the table collapsed under the weight of the food) device… …
26weight — [[t]weɪt[/t]] n. 1) wam the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs 2) phs the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity 3) wam a system of units for… …
27weight — n. & v. n. 1 Physics a the force experienced by a body as a result of the earth s gravitation (cf. MASS(1) n. 8). b any similar force with which a body tends to a centre of attraction. 2 the heaviness of a body regarded as a property of it; its… …
28importance — noun Date: 1508 1. a. the quality or state of being important ; consequence b. an important aspect or bearing ; significance 2. obsolete import, meaning 3. obsolete importunity …
29weight — I n 1. heaviness, heft, heftiness, weightiness, ponderousness, ponderosity, gravity; pounds, tonnage, pressure; mass, density, volume, size; bulk, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, amplitude. 2. load, burden, onus, cross, millstone, albatross; duty …
30weight — Synonyms and related words: Indian club, accent, affliction, amperage, armipotence, ascendancy, authoritativeness, authority, balance, ballast, barbell, be heavy, beef, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, black power, bob, brim …
