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: one of the classes into which contestants in a sports event are divided according to body weight
: poundage required to be carried by a horse in a handicap race
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: a heavy object (such as a metal ball) thrown, put, or lifted as an athletic exercise or contest
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: a piece of material (such as metal) of known specified weight for use in weighing articles
: a system of related units of weight
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: a heavy object to hold or press something down or to counterbalance
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: the quality or state of being ponderous
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: the force with which a body is attracted toward the earth or a celestial body by gravitation and which is equal to the product of the mass and the local gravitational acceleration
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: a numerical coefficient assigned to an item to express its relative importance in a frequency distribution
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: the degree of thickness of the strokes of a type character
transitive verb
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: to load or make heavy with or as if with a weight
: to increase in heaviness by adding an ingredient
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: to assign a statistical weight to
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Weight Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
