1. weight - Noun
2. weight - Verb
3. Weight - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love. Sophocles
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
None knows the weight of another's burden. George Herbert
A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns. Hindi Proverb
On which soil we stand on, that is where we carry the weight of the sky. Malay Proverb
The weight of the burden is known only by he who caries it. Moroccan Proverb