Weight vs Duty - 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.
That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
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*1805 , 21 October,
*:England expects that every man will do his duty .
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty , cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.
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Describing a workload as to its idle, working and de-energized periods.
A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
(lb) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XX:
*:Take that which is thy duty , and goo thy waye.
(lb) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my duty to you
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
Weight is a related term of duty.
As a noun 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).As a verb weight
is to add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.As an adjective duty is
hollow (having an empty space inside).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)duty
English
Noun
(duties)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}