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The weight of a specific number of seeds, utilized to find the average weight of a single seed.
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A weight that acts as a counterbalance.
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Alternative form of balance weight. [A weight that acts as a counterbalance.]
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To weigh down with a ballast.
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(transitive) To add weight or strength to.
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(transitive) To determine the weight of; weigh; consider.
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(mathematics) Any of various weighted means
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A counterweight on part of a machine.
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Alternative spelling of bodymass [Synonym of bodyweight]
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alternative form of bodyweight [The weight or mass of an organism.]
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The weight or mass of an organism.
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A weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.
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The weight of an item that is not set to a standard, but which varies around an approximate value.
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Alternative form of check weigher [A form of dynamic scale that weighs products as they come off a production line]
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A weighted arm, or an arm that holds a weight, which acts as a counterbalance.
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A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
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(American spelling) synonym of kerb weight
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Alternative spelling of cwt. (“hundredweight”) [Hundredweight.]
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Alternative form of dead load [(construction) The weight of a structure itself, including the weight of fixtures or equipment permanently attached to it.]
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(transitive) To reduce the weighting of.
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(transitive) To weigh or press down; depress; cause to sink or prevent from rising.
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(statistics) To give something a lower weight
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The weight of something without added water (or after water has been removed)
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Alternative form of dry weight [The weight of something without added water (or after water has been removed)]
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A device, often part of a conveyor belt system, that weighs a product while it is in motion.
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(mechanics) A weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force.
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(of an idea, view etc.) To be taken more seriously.
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(idiomatic) To improve the credibility or legitimacy of.
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The total weight of a product and its packaging.
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(of an aircraft) Weighing more than the volume of air which it displaces.
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(obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
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A paperweight (heavy object placed on paper to keep it from fluttering away).
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The weight of a living animal before it is slaughtered for meat; used for example as a pricing basis in selling cattle for meat.
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(transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
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(intransitive) To become less heavy or obese.
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Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
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(proscribed) Synonym of weight
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(transitive, figuratively) To weigh down.
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A measure of the amount of sugar in grape juice.
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Obsolete form of net weight. [The weight of a product (especially food) without the weight of its packaging.]
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The weight of a product (especially food) without the weight of its packaging.
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(in combination) Something that weighs, or holds, a specified number of ounces.
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Alternative form of pack on the pounds [(colloquial) To gain weight, especially as a result of vigorous or excessive eating.]
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(obsolete, figuratively) To weigh down, retard
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(intransitive) To have weight or influence.
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(transitive, rare) To make weighty or ponderous.
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(uncountable) weight, especially body weight
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(in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds.
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To experience a weight gain, to increase in weight.
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Alternative form of sash weight [an object used as counterweight for a sash on a sash window panel]
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(transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
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A weight of twenty pounds.
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That weighs itself, or its load or contents.
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a simple balance for weighing foodstuffs etc. The thing to be weighed hangs from the short side of a beam; the long side has graduated notches for a standard weight.
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To have weight or influence.
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(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The force of a moving object or body in motion; violence.
adj
Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight.
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(military) A measure of the effective weight of ballistic missile payloads, given in kilograms or tonnes.
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Alternative form of thumb on the scale [(idiomatic) An act of bias or a tactic for cheating which creates a situation that unfairly benefits one party involved in an interaction.]
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(idiomatic, intransitive, used with "at") To weigh (have a certain weight).
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(transitive) To weigh in at; to weigh.
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(obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
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Of, or relating to, troy weight.
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(obsolete) The act of weighing.
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To remove a statistical weighting from.
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(psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.
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Obsolete spelling of weight [The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).]
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(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
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(idiomatic) To be disadvantageous to someone.
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To act as a ballast for.
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(Canada, US, rowing) To stop rowing after a "weigh enough" command.
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(intransitive with an indication of weight) To undergo a weigh-in.
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(transitive, UK, slang) To sentence (a prisoner).
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(figuratively) To cause distress to or impose a burden on; to trouble.
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To divide (something) into portions by weight.
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To assess a person or situation
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The process of determining a competitor's body weight prior to an event, especially to ensure it is within the weight restrictions.
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A board used for weighing.
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a mechanical device, often coin-operated, for determining the weight of an object or person
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The act or process of undergoing a weigh-in, as before a boxing match or after a horserace.
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Somebody who professionally weighs goods, a weigher.
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(India) The weighing of goods.
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An object used to make something heavier.
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Alternative spelling of weight-bear [(medicine) To bear weight; to support or withstand the weight of the body.]
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To place a weight on, attach a weight to, load with a weight; to encumber with a weight.
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Increase in weight, usually of a person or animal.
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(sciences) A measure or unit to express an object's weight, which is directly proportional to its mass when the gravity is fixed (as commonly but imprecisely presumed on earth's surface.)
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(idiomatic) The distressing combined burden of the problems, doubts, imperfections, and responsibilities associated with human existence.
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alternative form of weight-watcher [a person who monitors their body weight, especially when wanting to slim.]
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(slang) A cyclist who is concerned about the weight of his or her bicycle.
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An intentional reduction in the weight of an object.
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a person who monitors their body weight, especially when wanting to slim.
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Alternative form of weight-bearing [The ability to bear weight.]
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simple past tense of weightbear
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(transitive, by extension) To weigh down
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One who weights or assigns a weighting.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of weight.
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Obsolete form of weigh. [(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.]
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(UK dialectal, Scotland) A counterbalancing weight; counterweight.
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Abbreviation of weight. [The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).]
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(astronautics) A yo-weight.
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(astronautics) A weight unreeled from a discarded rocket stage to unbalance the stage and cause it to tumble, preventing the stage's residual thrust from causing it to ram the payload that discarded the stage.
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Alternative form of yo-yo despin [(astronautics) A method of reducing the rotation rate of a rapidly-spinning spacecraft by unreeling a pair of weights from the spinning spacecraft, greatly increasing the spacecraft's moment of inertia and transferring most of the spacecraft's angular momentum to the weights.]
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A series of failed diets that cause a person to lose and gain weight alternately.
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(astronautics) One of the weights unreeled from a spacecraft during yo-yo despin to reduce the spacecraft's rotation rate.
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