Burden vs. Weight

Burdennoun

A heavy load.

Burdennoun

A responsibility, onus.

Burdennoun

A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

Burdennoun

The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.

Burdennoun

(mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

Burdennoun

(metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

Burdennoun

A fixed quantity of certain commodities.

Burdennoun

A birth.

Burdennoun

(medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.

Burdennoun

(music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.

Burdennoun

The drone of a bagpipe.

Burdennoun

(obsolete) Theme, core idea.

Burdenverb

(transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).

Burdenverb

To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

Burdennoun

That which is borne or carried; a load.

Burdennoun

That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.

Burdennoun

The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.

Burdennoun

The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.

Burdennoun

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.

Burdennoun

A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

Burdennoun

A birth.

Burdennoun

The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.

Burdennoun

The drone of a bagpipe.

Burdennoun

A club.

Burdenverb

To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.

Burdenverb

To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.

Burdenverb

To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).

Burdennoun

an onerous or difficult concern;

Burdennoun

weight to be borne or conveyed

Burdennoun

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Burdennoun

the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

Burdenverb

weight down with a load

Burdenverb

impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to;

Weightnoun

The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

Weightnoun

An object used to make something heavier.

Weightnoun

A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.

Weightnoun

Importance or influence.

Weightnoun

(weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.

Weightnoun

(physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

Weightnoun

(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.

Weightnoun

(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.

Weightnoun

(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.

Weightnoun

(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.

Weightnoun

(visual art) The illusion of mass.

Weightnoun

(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

Weightnoun

Pressure; burden.

Weightnoun

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Weightnoun

Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

Weightverb

(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

Weightverb

To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.

Weightverb

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

Weightverb

To assign weights to individual statistics.

Weightverb

(transitive) To bias something; to slant.

Weightverb

To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

Weightverb

To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Weightnoun

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

Weightnoun

The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.

Weightnoun

Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.

Weightnoun

Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.

Weightnoun

A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

Weightnoun

A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.

Weightnoun

A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

Weightnoun

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Weightverb

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.

Weightverb

To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

Weightverb

To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

Weightverb

to assign a numerical value expressing relative importance to (a measurement), to be multiplied by the value of the measurement in determining averages or other aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the test twice as heavily as part 2.

Weightnoun

the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

Weightnoun

sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; a weight that is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms

Weightnoun

the relative importance granted to something;

Weightnoun

an artifact that is heavy

Weightnoun

an oppressive feeling of heavy force;

Weightnoun

a system of units used to express the weight of something

Weightnoun

a unit used to measure weight;

Weightnoun

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Weightverb

weight down with a load

Weightverb

present with a bias;

Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the gravitational force.