Weight vs Sicilicus - 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.
(Roman measurements) A unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia.
* 1830 , Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy , volume 1,
* 1859 , Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ,
A diacritic, resembling a 180-rotated ‘C’ (i.e. , being similar in appearance to ? ? ?), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
* 1925 , Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies (3rd edition; Cambridge University Press),
As nouns the difference between weight and sicilicus
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 sicilicus is (roman measurements) a unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia or sicilicus can be a diacritic, resembling a 180-rotated ‘c’ (ie , being similar in appearance to ⟨ ᵓ ⟩), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in classical latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.As a verb weight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)sicilicus
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(sicilici)page 182:
- Both the pounds were therefore divided alike into 15 ores, that is, ounces; the ores into 4 skyllings, the sicilici of the Romans, and the skyllings into 4 pence by the Saxons, while the Danes used the mark of 20 skyllings, and the skylling of 2 mancuses.
9MNOC_QbPtJm3BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22sicilici%22&f=false page 1213:
- UNCIA (), the twelfth part of the As or Libra, is derived by Varro from unus'', as being the unit of the divisions of the as (''L. L.'' v. 171, Müller). It was subdivided into 2 ''semunciae'', 3 ''duellae'', 4 ''sicilici'' , 6 ''sextulae'', 24 ''scrupula'', and 144 ''siliquae .
Synonyms
* (Roman measurement) (l)Etymology 2
From the (etyl) sicilicus, the diminutive form of , so named because of its falciformity.Noun
(sicilici)page 743:
- It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.