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weight
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- pronunciation:
- weIt
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- phrases:
- carry one's weight, carry weight, pull one's weight, put on weight
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
heaviness, esp. as expressed in terms of a recognized system of measurement.
There is too much weight in the back of the boat.
- synonyms:
- heaviness
- similar words:
- bulk, gravity, heft, poundage, size
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| definition 2: |
a unit or system of units by which heaviness is measured.
Ounces and pounds are units of weight. |
| definition 3: |
a specified amount of heaviness.
I can lift a weight of fifty pounds.- similar words:
- burden, load, measure
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| definition 4: |
the amount of heaviness of a person or animal's body.
My weight has changed a lot this year.You look as if you have lost weight.The baby is gaining weight just as she should. |
| definition 5: |
the property or condition of being heavy.
Objects have no weight in outer space.- synonyms:
- heaviness, weightiness
- similar words:
- density, immensity, substance
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| definition 6: |
an object whose usefulness depends on its being heavy.
He still keeps a paper weight on his desk.I lift weights at the gym.
- similar words:
- ballast, bob, paperweight, plumb, plummet, sinker
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| definition 7: |
in physics, the force with which an object is attracted to the Earth or another celestial body, which is equal to the object's mass multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity.
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| definition 8: |
a psychological burden.
No one seemed to understand the weight of her grief.- synonyms:
- burden, load, pressure
- similar words:
- affliction, care, cross, encumbrance, freight, impediment, millstone, onus, responsibility, strain, stress, trial, worry
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| definition 9: |
the greatest or most influential part.
The weight of the evidence seems to point to his guilt.- synonyms:
- body, preponderance
- similar words:
- emphasis, essence, gist, majority, mass, substance
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| definition 10: |
importance; influence.
My father's advice had a lot of weight in my decision.- synonyms:
- importance, influence, moment, significance
- similar words:
- authority, concern, consequence, emphasis, gravity, import, magnitude, meaning, pith, power, strength, substance, sway, value
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| related words: |
depth, effect, influence, mass, moment, pressure, pull, tax, yoke |
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| phrase: |
carry weight, pull one's weight |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
weights, weighting, weighted |
| definition 1: |
to make heavier.
- synonyms:
- weigh down
- similar words:
- ballast
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| definition 2: |
to load or burden.
- synonyms:
- burden, weigh down
- similar words:
- encumber, freight, hamper, load, saddle, tax, trouble
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| definition 3: |
to give an advantage, emphasis, or bias to.
- synonyms:
- slant, stress
- similar words:
- bias, emphasize, handicap, load
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| phrase: |
carry one's weight, put on weight |
The words weight and wait sound alike but have different meanings.
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