Telugu vs. Weight

A Darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the Madras presidency. In extent of use it is the next language after Hindustani (in its various forms) and Bengali.

One of the people speaking the Telugu language.

Of or pertaining to the Telugu language, or the Telugus.

a member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language

a Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu people in southeastern India

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.

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

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘the weight of care or business’;

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

Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

Example: ‘He was pushing weight.’;

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

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

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

To assign weights to individual statistics.

(transitive) To bias something; to slant.

To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

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

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.

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.

Example: ‘For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes.’;

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

Example: ‘For the public all this weight he bears.’; ‘[He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.’;

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

Example: ‘In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.’;

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

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

Example: ‘A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.’;

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

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

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.

Example: ‘The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.’;

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

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

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.

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

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

the relative importance granted to something;

Example: ‘his opinion carries great weight’;

an artifact that is heavy

an oppressive feeling of heavy force;

Example: ‘bowed down by the weight of responsibility’;

a system of units used to express the weight of something

a unit used to measure weight;

Example: ‘he placed two weights in the scale pan’;

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

weight down with a load

present with a bias;

Example: ‘He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders’;

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.