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Meaning of weight

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  weight
      n 1: the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
      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 [syn: {weight},
         {free weight}, {exercising weight}]
      3: the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion
         carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing
         weightiness of the items listed" [syn: {weight},
         {weightiness}]
      4: an artifact that is heavy
      5: an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the
         weight of responsibility"
      6: a system of units used to express the weight of something
         [syn: {system of weights}, {weight}]
      7: a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the
         scale pan" [syn: {weight unit}, {weight}]
      8: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a
         frequency distribution in order to represent their relative
         importance [syn: {weight}, {weighting}]
      v 1: weight down with a load [syn: {burden}, {burthen},
           {weight}, {weight down}] [ant: {disburden}, {unburden}]
      2: present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to
         please the share holders" [syn: {slant}, {angle}, {weight}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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