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

03noun

the relative importance granted to something

“his opinion carries great weight”

“the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed”

04noun

an artifact that is heavy

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05noun

an oppressive feeling of heavy force

“bowed down by the weight of responsibility”

06noun

a system of units used to express the weight of something

07noun

a unit used to measure weight

“he placed two weights in the scale pan”

08noun

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

09verb

weight down with a load

10verb

present with a bias

“He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders”

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pull your weight

Do your fair share of the work in a group.

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