weights
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/weɪts/
English
Definitions
noun
- (physical) Matter, material.
- A large quantity; a sum.
noun
- The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- Celebration of the Eucharist.
- (usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
noun
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- Importance or influence.
verb
- To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- To load, burden or oppress someone.
- To assign weights to individual statistics.
- To bias something; to slant.
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Synonyms
angleburthenslantweight downburdenexercising weightsystem of weightsweight unitweighingweighkicksbalancingmassloadsmassesimportance