Definition of Weight

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Weight

To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.

Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.

Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.

A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.

A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.

To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

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Weight Quotations

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus

Weight Translations

weight in Afrikaans is gewig
weight in Dutch is gewicht
weight in French is poids, pesanteur
weight in German is Gewicht
weight in Latin is gravitas, onus
weight in Norwegian is vekt
weight in Portuguese is peso
weight in Spanish is peso
weight in Swedish is vikt, tyngd, lod

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