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Weight vs Liability - What's the difference?

weight | liability |

As nouns the difference between weight and liability

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 liability is the condition of being liable.

As a verb weight

is to add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.

weight

English

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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 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.}}
  • * 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.

    • 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 * welterweight

    Related terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * weigh

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • liability

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia liability) (liabilities)
  • the condition of being liable.
  • an obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
  • * 1901 , , (w, The Monkey's Paw)
    • "I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
  • a handicap that holds one back.
  • the likelihood of something happening.

    • Antonyms

    * asset

    Derived terms

    * enterprise liability * secondary liability * vicarious liability