Talent vs. Weight

Talentnoun

A marked natural ability or skill.

Talentnoun

(historical) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.

Talentnoun

(obsolete) A desire or inclination for something.

Talentnoun

People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.

Talentnoun

(slang) The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.

Talentnoun

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.

Talentnoun

Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.

Talentnoun

Inclination; will; disposition; desire.

Talentnoun

Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).

Talentnoun

natural qualities or talents

Talentnoun

a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity

Talentnoun

natural aptitude or skill

Talentnoun

people possessing natural aptitude or skill

Talentnoun

people regarded as sexually attractive or as prospective sexual partners

Talentnoun

a former weight and unit of currency, used especially by the ancient Romans and Greeks

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.