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Definition of "weight"

weight

Từ điển Collocation

weight noun

¹ amount sth weighs

ADJ. considerable, enormous, great, heavy, immense | light | gross, net | average, mean | sheer (figurative) The sheer weight of visitors is destroying this tourist attraction.

VERB + WEIGHT bear, carry, support The arch bears the weight of the bridge above. | bend/buckle/collapse/crack/sag/shift/sink beneath/under, give way beneath/under Many buildings collapsed under the weight of rain-soaked ash and mud. (figurative) He was buckling under the weight of his responsibilities. | crush sb beneath/under | creak/groan beneath/under She tried to be quiet, but the stairs creaked under her weight. | stagger/strain beneath/under The boy was staggering beneath the weight of a pile of boxes.

PREP. in ~ It is about 76 kilos in weight.

² weight of sb's body

ADJ. low | ideal, right | excess, surplus | target I should soon be down to my target weight of 70 kilos. | body | birth babies with a low birth weight

VERB + WEIGHT watch I won't have any cake?I have to watch my weight. | gain, put on | lose, reduce, shed He's lost a lot of weight. | keep down | bear, carry, hold, support, stand, take I was worried that the branch wouldn't take my weight. | put, rest The doctor told me not to put my weight on this ankle for a month. | shift, transfer He nervously shifted his weight from foot to foot. | distribute Stand with your legs apart and your weight evenly distributed. | hurl, throw He threw his weight at the door and it burst open.

WEIGHT + VERB go up, increase | go down, decrease, drop, fall, plummet, plunge | fluctuate People's body weight can fluctuate during the day.

WEIGHT + NOUN gain, loss | control | problem

³ piece of metal

ADJ. heavy, large | light

VERB + WEIGHT lift She did circuit training and lifted weights to build her fitness.

WEIGHT + NOUN lifting, training

PHRASES weights and measures

⁴ heavy object

ADJ. heavy | dead With difficulty she managed to pull his dead weight onto the bed. | leaden (figurative) A leaden weight lay on her heart as she waved him goodbye.

VERB + WEIGHT lift Heavy weights should be lifted with a straight back.

⁵ importance/influence of sth

ADJ. due, sufficient Environmental considerations were given due weight in making the decision. | insufficient | considerable | sheer How can you ignore the sheer weight of medical opinion? | economic, financial, intellectual, political America's economic weight

VERB + WEIGHT attach, give, place They attach too much weight to academic achievement. | carry Her opinion seemed to carry little weight in the company. | add, lend The new evidence added considerable weight to the prosecution's case. Sir Leon lent his weight to the Tory campaign yesterday.

PHRASES put/throw your weight behind sth, weight of numbers The rebels were defeated by sheer weight of numbers.

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• 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; free weight, exercising weight
• the relative importance granted to something; weightiness

  his opinion carries great weight

  the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed

• 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; system of weights
• a unit used to measure weight; weight unit

  he placed two weights in the scale pan

• (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance; weighting

v.

• weight down with a load; burden, burthen, weight down
• present with a bias; slant, angle

  He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders

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Bloomberg Financial Glossary

权数权数
Either Gross Weight, Net Weight, or Tare Weight.

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Oil and Gas Field Glossary

Air: The weight of an empty string of tubing, typically given as weight per unit length. Buoyed:The weight of the tubing string immersed in a fluid. The tubing may be gas filled (maximum buoyancy), filled with a reference fluid (conventional buoyancy), or filled with a heavier fluid.

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

weights|weighted|weighting
syn.: angle burden burthen exercising weight free weight slant system of weights weight down weight unit weightiness weighting