weight
What scales measure
When you weigh something, you determine its weight: The weight of the package is seven pounds.
A person’s weight is how much they weigh: Haven’t you put on some weight?
Just as weigh can mean consider, weight can also mean importance: Our argument carried weight with the senators.
Units of heaviness or mass are called weights: weights and measures.
In a gym, weights are the heavy objects people use in for body-building or weight training.
The comparatively infrequent verb weight usually means to bias something in a particular way: Boston teachers’ salaries are weighted for the higher cost of living there.
Of great mass
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- heftPerceived mass, substance
- bulkMain mass or size
- densityMass-to-volume ratio
laden · ponderous · hefty · cumbersome · solid · leaden · massive · substantial
State of being answerable
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- strainExcessive stretching force
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- pressureForce upon contact
load · hardship · onus · duty · worry · anxiety · oppression · encumbrance
Quality of mattering
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- consequenceResult of an action
- influencePower to affect others
- cloutInformal power or punch
seriousness · impact · authority · credibility · persuasion · leverage · pull · sway
Handheld exercise weight
- barbellWeighted exercise apparatus
- kettlebellHandled iron weight
- liftingRaising something heavy
- benchShared seating surface
Of ships and sailing
- mooringVessel's secured resting place
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- vesselReceptacle for contents
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
maritime · dock · buoy · chain · ballast · stabilize · secure · hold
Character style set
- boldCourageous and daring
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- mediumMiddle size or state
- bookBound written work
regular · heavy · black · thin · hairline · typeface · stroke · thickness
Prone to fluctuation
- factorContributor to result
- coefficientNumber multiplying a variable
- indexAlphabetical guide to contents
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
mean · distribution · sample · bias · adjustment · assign · calculate · score
heavy
Of great mass
density · laden · ponderous · hefty · cumbersome · solid · leaden · massive · substantial · lightness
kilogram
Base unit of mass
ton · milligram · scale · balance · tare · carat · stone · metric · imperial · calibration
responsibility
State of being answerable
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- strainExcessive stretching force
- obligationRequired task or commitment
pressure · load · hardship · onus · duty · worry · anxiety · oppression · encumbrance · albatross
significance
Quality of mattering
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- consequenceResult of an action
- influencePower to affect others
clout · seriousness · impact · authority · credibility · persuasion · leverage · pull · sway · standing
dumbbell
Handheld exercise weight
- barbellWeighted exercise apparatus
- kettlebellHandled iron weight
- liftingRaising something heavy
bench · squat · deadlift · curl · rep · set · plates · rack · gym · strength
nautical
Of ships and sailing
harbor · maritime · dock · buoy · chain · ballast · stabilize · secure · hold · seabed
font
Character style set
book · regular · heavy · black · thin · hairline · typeface · stroke · thickness · letterform
variable
Prone to fluctuation
- factorContributor to result
- coefficientNumber multiplying a variable
- indexAlphabetical guide to contents
average · mean · distribution · sample · bias · adjustment · assign · calculate · score · rating
- measurementsheight, stature, meters, depth, pound
- W wordswater, walk, wind, wood, world
- gravitygravity, graviton, gravity well, gravitational pull, gravity wave
- scalesmeasure, balance, balance scale, digital scale, bathroom scale
- animal measurementslength, height, wingspan, tail length, body mass
- body measurementsheight, waist circumference, head circumference, shoulder width, leg length
weightlightness
Minimal weight or gravity
weightlessness · buoyancy · airiness · featheriness · ethereality
weightinsignificance
Lack of consequence or weight
triviality · unimportance · inconsequence · frivolity · pettiness
- lose weightReduce body mass
- gain weightIncrease body mass
- weight lossReduction in body mass
- weighed downMade heavy by burden
- weigh downAdd heaviness to something
- weight gainBody mass accumulation
weigh, weighty, overweight, weighed, weighing, lightweight, weighted, weighs, weights