Weight vs Cogency - What's the difference?
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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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* 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11
(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
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
To add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
(mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
To bias something; to slant.
(horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
* 1781 , , "Addison," in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols (London), vol. 5, page 156:
* 1928 , , "Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting," Speculum , vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct), page 444:
Weight is a related term of cogency.
As nouns the difference between weight and cogency
is that weight is the force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by) while cogency is the state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.As a verb weight
is to add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.weight
English
Noun
(wikipedia weight) (en noun)citation, passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
- 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.
- "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
- the weight of care or business
- The weight of this sad time.
- For the public all this weight he bears.
Derived terms
* flyweight * heavyweight * lightweight * pseudoweight * pull one's weight * throw one's weight around * topweight * weightful, weightfully, weightfulness * weightlifter * weightlifting * weight of the world * weighty * welterweightVerb
(en verb)cogency
English
Noun
(cogencies)- All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.
- A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.