Weight vs Might - 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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(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
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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.
(uncountable) Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
(uncountable) Physical strength.
(uncountable) The ability to do something.
Mighty; powerful; possible.
(lb) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
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(lb) (may) Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
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Weight is a related term of might.
As nouns the difference between weight and might
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 might is (uncountable) power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.As verbs the difference between weight and might
is that weight is to add weight to something, in order to make it heavier while might is (lb) used to indicate conditional or possible actions.As an adjective might is
mighty; powerful; possible.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)might
English
(wikipedia might)Etymology 1
From (etyl) might, myghte, (also maught, macht, maht), from (etyl) miht, mieht, meaht, .Noun
(-)- He pushed with all his might , but still it would not move.
Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
From (etyl) meahte, from magan, whence English may.Verb
(head)- The characterism of an honest man: He looks not to what he might do, but what he should.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next;
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
