Synonym: angle, burden, burthen, exercising weight, free weight, slant, system of weights, weight down, weight unit, weightiness, weighting. Similar words: weigh, height, eighth, eighty, freight, highlight, neighbor, neighboring. Meaning: [weɪt] 
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 3. the relative importance granted to something 4. an artifact that is heavy 5. an oppressive feeling of heavy force 6. a system of units used to express the weight of something 7. a unit used to measure weight 8. (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance. v. 1. weight down with a load 2. present with a bias.
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1. Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. 
2. Deliver not your words by number but by weight.
3. Poor men’s words have little weight.
4. None knows the weight of another’s burden.
5. The students were regrouped according to height and weight.
6. The weight of the books bears on the shelf.
7. Her baby doubled its weight in a year.
8. It is about 76 kilos in weight.
9. The other children taunted him about his weight.
10. He’s always worrying about his weight.
11. These columns bear the weight of the roof.
12. I tried losing weight, but nothing worked.
13. The pillars couldn’t support the weight of the roof.
14. He shifted his weight onto his back foot.
15. He used his good arm to support his weight.
16. Great bulk does not always mean great weight.
17. The table creaked and groaned under the weight.
18. Don’t tease him about his weight — it’s cruel.
19. The dam burst under the weight of water.
20. Her weight went down to a satisfactory level.
21. The material has exceptionally high strength for its weight.
22. Put some tins on top to weight it down.
23. Bananas are usually sold by weight.
24. Uncle Ted’s chair collapsed under his weight.
25. Can a child lift such a weight?
26. She reduced her weight by 5 kilograms.
27. The baby doubled its weight in a year.
28. We’ll need to reduce the weight by half.
29. The weight is too much for my height.
30. She’s starving herself to try to lose weight.
More similar words: weigh, height, eighth, eighty, freight, highlight, neighbor, neighboring, light, night, right, might, neighborhood, flight, slight, in sight, tighten, delight, all right, light up, tightly, at night, insight, lightly, fighter, by night, slightly, lighting, nightmare, right away.
Sentences with the word Weight?
Weight
Examples
- «there was an addition to property taxes this year»; «they recorded the cattle’s gain in weight over a period of weeks»
- «The wall collapsed»; «The business collapsed»; «The dam broke»; «The roof collapsed»; «The wall gave in»; «The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice»
- «Exhale when you lift the weight«
- «the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds»
- «We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet»
- «The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester»; «The cabin pressure fell dramatically»; «her weight fell to under a hundred pounds»; «his voice fell to a whisper»
- «dry weight«
- «trying to lose excess weight«; «found some extra change lying on the dresser»; «yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant»; «skills made redundant by technological advance»; «sleeping in the spare room»; «supernumerary ornamentation»; «it was supererogatory of her to gloat»; «delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words»; «extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts»; «surplus cheese distributed to the needy»
- «a leaden weight«
- «Let out that dress—I gained a lot of weight«
- «a light pound»; «a scant cup of sugar»; «regularly gives short weight«
- «weight loss»; «a serious loss of business»
- «molar weight«
- «molecular structure»; «molecular oxygen»; «molecular weight is the sum of all the atoms in a molecule»
- «She never loses weight because she snacks between meals»
- «She is obsessing over her weight«
- «This illness predisposes you to gain weight«
- «the bodybuilder’s neck muscles tensed»; «the rope strained when the weight was attached»
- «Please take in this skirt—I’ve lost weight«
- «Take that weight off me!»
- «bowed down by the weight of responsibility»
- «his opinion carries great weight«; «the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed»
- «not worth his salt»; «worth her weight in gold»; «an appraisal determined the antique carved chair was worth $900»
вес, масса, груз, тяжесть, значение, нагрузка, весить, нагружать, увеличивать вес
существительное ↓
- вес
specific weight — удельный вес 
my weight is 140 pounds — мой вес /я вешу/ 140 фунтов
unit of weight — единица веса
to put on weight — прибавлять в весе, полнеть
to lose weight — терять в весе, худеть
to sell by weight — продавать на вес
sole weight — спорт. собственный вес тела
- единица веса; мера веса
a table [a system] of weights — таблица [система] мер веса
apothecaries’ weight — аптекарский вес
- правильный, полный, нужный вес
to be under [over] weight — весить слишком мало [много]
- тяжесть; груз, нагрузка, давление
dead weight — тех. собственный вес
under its own weight — под собственной тяжестью
keep the papers down with a weight — прижмите бумаги чем-нибудь тяжёлым
weight of roof, roof weight — горн. давление кровли, вторичное горное давление
weight per axle — спец. нагрузка на ось
- бремя (забот, работы и т. п.)
that’s a great weight off my mind — у меня с души камень свалился
he felt the weight of years — годы давали себя знать
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- утяжелять; подвешивать гирю, грузило и т. п.
to weight a stick with lead — утяжелить палку свинцом
- искусственно утяжелять
to weight silk — текст. утяжелять шёлк
to weight sugar — подмачивать сахар
- придавать вес, определённую направленность
circumstances weighted in his favour — обстоятельства сложились в его пользу
- взвешивать, устанавливать вес
- оценивать (результаты опыта и т. п.)
- стат. взвешивать
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Словосочетания
bowed down by the weight of responsibility — согнулся под тяжестью ответственности
a pliant branch bent low with the weight of ripe fruit — упругая ветка, низко склонившаяся под тяжестью спелых фруктов
to chuck one’s weight about / around — держаться надменно
gain in weight — увеличение веса
to groan under / beneath / with the weight of oppression — сгибаться под гнётом
to handle silk to judge its weight — прикинуть шёлк на вес
increase in weight — прибавка в весе, привес
weight limit — ограничение веса
loss in weight — потеря в весе
to pack by weight — фасовать по весу
part by weight — доля по весу, весовая доля
percent by weight — весовой процент
Примеры с переводом
She’s lost a lot of weight.
Она сильно похудела.
This is an argument of weight.
Это веский довод.
Her weight is 105 pounds.
Её вес составляет сто пять футов. (47,63 кг.)
You shouldn’t worry about your weight.
О своём весе вам волноваться не стоит.
He took off weight every day.
Он сбавлял в весе каждый день.
Sara’s convinced she has a weight problem.
Сара убеждена, что у неё проблемы с лишним весом.
The law weighted towards landlords.
Закон давал преимущество домовладельцам.
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Примеры, ожидающие перевода
His height and weight are in the 80th percentile for boys his age. 
…special drying cloths that are so bibulous that they can absorb 10 times their weight in water…
…suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss…
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Фразовые глаголы
weight down — тянуть вниз, отягощать, оттягивать
Возможные однокоренные слова
overweight — избыточный вес, перевес, весящий больше нормы, перегружать, обременять
weightless — невесомый
weighty — весомый, веский, тяжелый, важный, обременительный
weighted — утяжеленный, средневзвешенный
weightiest — самый важный
weighting — весить, нагружать, увеличивать вес, отягощать, обременять, подвешивать гирю
underweight — недовес, с недовесом
weightily — тяжело, увесисто, веско, важно, обременительно, тяжело
Формы слова
verb
I/you/we/they: weight
he/she/it: weights
ing ф. (present participle): weighting
2-я ф. (past tense): weighted
3-я ф. (past participle): weighted
noun
ед. ч.(singular): weight
мн. ч.(plural): weights
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Of this kind is the weight of any piece in the mechanism whose centre of gravity alternately rises and falls; for during the rise of the centre of gravity that weight acts as a resistance, and energy is employed in lifting it to an amount expressed by the product of the weight into the vertical height of its rise; and during the fall of the centre of gravity the weight acts as an effort, and exerts in assisting to perform the work of the machine an amount of energy exactly equal to that which had previously been employed in lifting it.
The first degree is then found by placing on the top of the stem a weight equal to i oat h of the weight of the instrument, which increases the volume immersed by i — 0 th of the original volume.
This law has been abundantly verified by experiment; for example, five oxides of nitrogen are known, and independent analyses show that, if we consider the same weight of nitrogen in every case, the weights of oxygen combined with it are to one another as i: 2: 3: 4: 5.
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A tender, however, is so much dead-weight to be hauled, whilst the weight of the water and fuel in a tank engine contributes largely to the production of adhesion.
The grapes from which the stalks are partly or wholly (and occasionally not at all) removed are crushed by treading or some other simple method, but sometimes even this is omitted, the juice being expressed by the weight of the grapes themselves, or by the pressure caused by incipient fermentation.
Of liquid dis placed) when the surface of the liquid in which the hydrometer floats coincides with the lowest division of the scale, A the area of the transverse section of the stem, 1 the length of a scale division, n the number of divisions on the stem, and W the weight of the instrument.
Arnie’s weight dropped, and Lana and Brady landed in a heap.
Alexander’s gold coinage, indeed (possibly not struck till after the invasion of Asia), follows in weight that of Philip’s staters; but he seems at once to have adopted for his silver coins (of a smaller denomination than the tetradrachm) the Euboic-Attic standard, instead of the Phoenician, which had been Philip’s.
The ounce, for instance, is one-sixteenth of the pound, but it is impossible to find 16 objects such that their weights shall be exactly equal and that the sum of their weights shall be exactly equal to the weight of the standard pound.
Olaf leapt into the sea holding his shield edgeways, so that he sank at once and the weight of his hauberk dragged him down.
Definition of Weight
the heaviness of something, specifically its mass
Examples of Weight in a sentence
After losing weight, I could fit into a much smaller swim suit.
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The weight of the couch made it too heavy for the mover to lift by himself.
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The price of the ice cream depends on its weight and the heaviness of the toppings.
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Using a scale, the dieter was able to see how much weight she had lost.
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My weight goes up and down, with my body usually being heavier in the winter time.
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