Wait vs. Weight

Waitverb

To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

Waitverb

(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.

Waitverb

To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.

Waitverb

To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

Waitverb

(obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.

Waitverb

To defer or postpone (especially a meal).

Waitverb

(intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.

Waitnoun

A delay.

Waitnoun

An ambush.

Waitnoun

(obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.

Waitnoun

Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.

Waitnoun

Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]

Waitverb

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

Waitverb

To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.

Waitverb

To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.

Waitverb

To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.

Waitverb

To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

Waitverb

To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; - said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.

Waitnoun

The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.

Waitnoun

Ambush.

Waitnoun

One who watches; a watchman.

Waitnoun

Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.

Waitnoun

Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

Waitnoun

time during which some action is awaited;

Waitnoun

the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something);

Waitverb

stay in one place and anticipate or expect something;

Waitverb

wait before acting

Waitverb

look forward to the probable occurrence of;

Waitverb

serve as a waiter in a restaurant;

Waitverb

stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or event

Waitverb

stay where one is or delay action until (someone) arrives or is ready

Waitverb

be left until a later time before being dealt with

Waitverb

defer (a meal) until a person's arrival

Waitverb

remain in readiness for a purpose

Waitverb

(of a vehicle) be parked for a short time at the side of a road.

Waitverb

used to indicate that one is eagerly impatient to do something or for something to happen

Waitverb

act as a waiter or waitress, serving food and drink

Waitnoun

a period of waiting

Waitnoun

street singers of Christmas carols.

Waitnoun

official bands of musicians maintained by a city or town.

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.