What is the meaning of weight?

noun

• The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.
• Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms.
  • synonyms: free weight, exercising weight
• The relative importance granted to something.
  • usage: "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
  • synonyms: weightiness
• An artifact that is heavy.
• An oppressive feeling of heavy force.
  • usage: "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
• A system of units used to express the weight of something.
  • synonyms: system of weights
• A unit used to measure weight.
  • usage: "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
  • synonyms: weight unit
• Statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance.
  • synonyms: weighting

verb

• Weight down with a load.
  • synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down
• Present with a bias.
  • usage: "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
  • synonyms: slant, angle