weight (noun)

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• weight — noun 1 amount sth weighs ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, heavy, immense ▪ light ▪ extra ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• weight — ► NOUN 1) a body s relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; heaviness. 2) Physics the force exerted on the mass of a body by a gravitational field. 3) the quality of being heavy. 4) a unit or… …   English terms dictionary

• weight lifting — noun : a sport in which barbells are lifted competitively or as an exercise compare clean and jerk, press 9a, snatch * * * weight lifting, or weight|lift|ing «WAYT LIHF tihng», noun. the lifting of barbells, dumbbells, or other weights, as a body …   Useful english dictionary

• weight lifter — noun : one that competes in or exercises by means of weight lifting * * * weight lifter, a person who lifts barbells, dumbbells, or other weights as a body building exercise or in sports competition: »Weight lifters and other athletes are prime… …   Useful english dictionary

• weight — I (burden) noun care, cumbrance, duty, encumbrance, incubus, liability, load, mass, obligation, onus, oppression, ponderousness, pressure, responsibility II (credibility) noun belief, certainty, confidence, credence, credibleness, credit, faith,… …   Law dictionary

• weight unit — noun 1. a decimal unit of weight based on the gram • Syn: ↑metric weight unit • Hypernyms: ↑mass unit, ↑metric unit, ↑metric • Hyponyms: ↑microgram, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• weight — noun 1》 a body s relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; heaviness.     ↘Physics the force exerted on the mass of a body by a gravitational field.     ↘the quality of being heavy.     ↘a unit or… …   English new terms dictionary

• weight|lift|ing — weight lifting, or weight|lift|ing «WAYT LIHF tihng», noun. the lifting of barbells, dumbbells, or other weights, as a body building exercise or in sports competition: »Eight or ten years ago, as a result of a program of weight lifting, he put an …   Useful english dictionary

• weight´-lift´ing — weight lifting, or weight|lift|ing «WAYT LIHF tihng», noun. the lifting of barbells, dumbbells, or other weights, as a body building exercise or in sports competition: »Eight or ten years ago, as a result of a program of weight lifting, he put an …   Useful english dictionary

• weight-watcher — noun a person who is on a diet in order to lose weight. Derivatives weight watching noun & adjective …   English new terms dictionary

• weight — noun 1) the weight of the book Syn: heaviness, mass, load, burden, pressure, force; poundage, tonnage 2) his recommendation will carry great weight Syn: influence, force, leverage, s …   Thesaurus of popular words