Noun

(wikipedia weight) (en 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.

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* 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116

Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.

* 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11

"You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.

(weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.

* He's working out with weights .

(physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.

(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.

(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.

(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.

(visual art) The illusion of mass.

(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

pressure; burden

the weight of care or business

* Shakespeare

The weight of this sad time.

* Milton

For the public all this weight he bears.

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Noun

(en noun)

(fishing) A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink

Hook the sinker onto this loop.

(baseball) Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball

His sinkers drew one ground ball after another.

(construction) Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.

(slang) A doughnut; a biscuit.

* 1926 , Edna Ferber, Show Boat: A Novel , page 268

Of the fifty cents, ten went for the glassy shoeshine; twenty-five for a boutonniere; ten for coffee and sinkers at the Cockeyed Bakery.

* 2001 , Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 , page 148

they improvised by opening a barrel of flour and letting each man dump in a quart of water (if he had one) and scoop out a handful of dough to bake into rock-hard sinkers .

* 2003 , William W. Johnstone, Ambush Of The Mountain Man , page 168

"Gonna have to dip them sinkers in coffee to get 'em soft enough to chew," Jason Biggs said, grinning.

In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.