weight
the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,546 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,836 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
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 also: free weight, exercising weight
- the relative importance granted to something also: weightiness his opinion carries great weightthe 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 also: system of weights
weight in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Gloria set the big, warm weight gently down upon its embroidered cushion.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Having alone freely engaged my future, I wished to bear alone the weight of my anxiety.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The English reader who sets it against Dryden's closer version will sense immediately its greater weight.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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Murmur not, and remember that the gods never lay a heavier weight on any man than he can bear.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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To prevent which, I fell to making boxes and bags, in order to separate it, having by me near 150lb. weight.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1