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say it: wayt
weight is a noun and verb meaning "the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity". It carries 10 recorded senses.
the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
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
the relative importance granted to something
“his opinion carries great weight”
“the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed”
an artifact that is heavy
a system of units used to express the weight of something
a unit used to measure weight
“he placed two weights in the scale pan”
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
statistics
weight down with a load
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for weight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.