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Weight English Sense Recorded 956.Weight 英 Weɪt]美 Wet

正面 956.weight
英 [weɪt]美 [wet]

背面
释义:
n. 重量,重力;负担;砝码;重要性vt. 加重量于,使变重n. (Weight)人名;(英)韦特;(捷)魏格特
例句:
1. The company manufactures a range of innovative light-weight cycles.这家公司生产一系列的新型轻便自行车。

1、binary + digit.2、即一口的量。3、related Old English bite "act of biting," and bita "piece bitten off".
weight 重量来自weigh,称量。
weight (n.)Old English gewiht "weighing, weight, downward force of a body, heaviness," from Proto-Germanic *wihti- (cognates: Old Norse vætt, Danish vegt, Old Frisian wicht, Middle Dutch gewicht, German Gewicht), from *weg- (see weigh). Figurative sense of "burden" is late 14c. To lose weight "get thinner" is recorded from 1961. Weight Watcher as a trademark name dates from 1960. To pull one's weight (1921) is from rowing. To throw (one's) weight around figuratively is by 1922. Weight-training is from 1945. Weight-lifting is from 1885; weight-lifter (human) from 1893.weight (v.)"to load with weight," 1747 (figuratively, of the mind, from 1640s), from weight (n.). Of horses in a handicap race, 1846. Sense in statistics is recorded from 1901. Related: Weighted; weighting."

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