weight
1. the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity (Freq. 26)
• Derivationally related forms:
weighty
• Hypernyms:
physical property
• Hyponyms:
body weight, dead weight, heaviness, weightiness, poundage,
tare, throw-weight, lightness, weightlessness
• Attrubites:
heavy, light
2. 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 (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
free weight, exercising weight
• Hypernyms:
sports equipment
• Hyponyms:
barbell, dumbbell
3. the relative importance granted to something (Freq. 4)
- his opinion carries great weight
- the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
• Syn:
weightiness
• Derivationally related forms:
weighty (for: weightiness), weighty
• Hypernyms:
importance
4. an artifact that is heavy (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
artifact, artefact
• Hyponyms:
bob, counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance,
equalizer, equaliser, load, loading, burden, makeweight,
paperweight, sinker
5. an oppressive feeling of heavy force (Freq. 2)
- bowed down by the weight of responsibility
• Derivationally related forms:
weighty
• Hypernyms:
oppression, oppressiveness
6. a system of units used to express the weight of something
• Syn:
system of weights
• Hypernyms:
system of measurement, metric
• Hyponyms:
avoirdupois, avoirdupois weight, troy, troy weight
7. a unit used to measure weight
- he placed two weights in the scale pan
• Syn:
weight unit
• Hypernyms:
unit of measurement, unit
• Hyponyms:
troy unit, apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight, arroba, catty,
cattie, crith, frail, last, maund, obolus,
obolus, picul, pood, rotl, tael,
tod, welterweight
8. (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
• Syn:
weighting
• Topics:
statistics
• Hypernyms:
coefficient
1. present with a bias (Freq. 1)
- He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders
• Syn:
slant, angle
• Derivationally related forms:
slant (for: slant)
• Hypernyms:
bias, predetermine
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. weight down with a load (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
burden, burthen, weight down
• Ant:
unburden (for: burden)
• Derivationally related forms:
burthen (for: burthen), burden (for: burden)
• Hypernyms:
charge
• Hyponyms:
overburden, plumb, saddle
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s something with something
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