Weight vs Impost - 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.
A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 56:
The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.
(horse racing, slang) The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race, the handicap.
As nouns the difference between weight and impost
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 impost is a tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise or impost can be the top part of a column or pillar that supports an arch.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)impost
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) impost, from (etyl) impositus, past participle of .Noun
(en noun)- New universal direct taxes had to be introduced [...], while the burden of indirect taxes was also made heavier, with new imposts being levied on an ensemble of items ranging from playing cards to wigs.