Definitions for weights

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Spelling: [weyt]

IPA: /weɪt/

Weights is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in weights (eghistw).

Definitions for weights

noun

1. the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
2. Physics. the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass.
3. a system of units for expressing heaviness or mass:
4. a unit of heaviness or mass:
5. a body of determinate mass, as of metal, for using on a balance or scale in weighing objects, substances, etc.
6. a specific quantity of a substance that is determined by weighing or that weighs a fixed amount:
7. any heavy load, mass, or object:
8. an object used or useful solely because of its heaviness:
9. a mental or moral burden, as of care, sorrow, or responsibility:
10. importance, moment, consequence, or effective influence:
11. Statistics. a measure of the relative importance of an item in a statistical population.
12. relative heaviness or thickness as related to warmth or to seasonal use (often used in combination): relative heaviness or thickness as related to use:
13. Printing. (of type) the degree of blackness or boldness.
14. (especially in boxing) a division or class to which a contestant belongs according to how much he weighs:
15. the total amount the jockey, saddle, and leads must weigh on a racehorse during a race, according to the conditions of the race:
16. the stress or accent value given a sound, syllable, or word.

Idioms

1. by weight, according to measurement of heaviness or mass:
2. carry weight, to have importance or significance; influence:
3. pull one's weight, to contribute one's rightful share of work to a project or job: Also, pull one's own weight.
4. throw one's weight around / about, to use one's power and influence, especially beyond the bounds of propriety, to secure some personal gain.

verb (used with object)

1. to add weight to; load with additional weight:
2. to load (fabrics, threads, etc.) with mineral or other matter to increase the weight or bulk.
3. to burden with or as if with weight (often followed by down):
4. Statistics. to give a statistical weight to.
5. to bias or slant toward a particular goal or direction; manipulate:
6. to assign (a racehorse) a specific weight to carry in a race:

Origin of weights

before 1000; Middle English (noun); Old English wiht (cognate with Dutch wicht, German Gewicht); see weigh¹, -th¹

Examples for weights

The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.

Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.

While juice cleanses and weight loss colonics seem like relatively recent inventions, they have a long history.

The whole rested on a golden image of Atlas, bending beneath the weight.

It squeaked under his weight, he felt the rungs bow and tremble.

First he shifted to one foot, and then he shifted his weight to the other.

Their weight was too great not to count, but it counted first this way and then that.

At first the solid blackness seemed to lay a weight on their foreheads.

A table creaking under the weight of a Christmas banquet, a classic celebration of binge eating and drinking.

The weight of both decisions ignited protests across the land.