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weight in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. present with a bias
    "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
    slant  angle  weight 
  2. weight down with a load
    burden  burthen  weight  weight down 
noun
  1. sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
    weight  free weight  exercising weight 
  2. a system of units used to express the weight of something
    system of weights  weight 
  3. an artifact that is heavy
    weight 
  4. the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
    weight 
  5. the relative importance granted to something
    "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
    weight  weightiness 
  6. an oppressive feeling of heavy force
    "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
    weight 
  7. a unit used to measure weight
    "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
    weight unit  weight 
  8. (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
    weight  weighting 
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