Unscramble weights

Definition of weight

noun:

• the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.
• 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. Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight.
• the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight", "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed". Synonyms: weightiness.
• an artifact that is heavy.
• an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the weight of responsibility".
• a system of units used to express the weight of something. Synonyms: system of weights.
• a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan". Synonyms: weight unit.
• (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance. Synonyms: weighting.

verb:

• weight down with a load. Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down. Antonyms: unburden.
• present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders". Synonyms: angle, slant.

Related words

arroba, avoirdupois, balance, barbell, bob, burden, cattie, catty, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, crith, dumbbell, equaliser, equalizer, frail, heaviness, last, lightness, load, loading, makeweight, maund, obolus, oka, overburden, paperweight, picul, plumb, pood, poundage, rotl, saddle, sinker, tael, tare, tod, troy, weightiness, weightlessness, welterweight.

Words nearby

eight, height, weigh, weighty, wight, wright.

Rhymes with

abate, ablate, actuate, ate, await, bait, bate, berate, chait, collate, commutate, conflate, conjugate, crate, create, date, debate, deflate, demodulate, desecrate.