| query | You can refer to a heavy object as a w_____, especially when you have to lift it.You can refer to a heavy object as a weight, especially when you have to lift it. Straining to lift heavy weights can lead to a rise in blood pressure. |
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| word | weight |
| full-definition | noun The weight of a person or thing is how heavy they are, measured in units such as kilograms, pounds, or tons . What is your height and weight? This reduced the weight of the load. Turkeys can reach enormous weights of up to 50 pounds. A person's or thing's weight is the fact that they are very heavy. His weight was harming his health. Despite the vehicle's size and weight, it is not difficult to drive. If you move your weight, you change position so that most of the pressure of your body is on a particular part of your body. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other. He kept the weight from his left leg. Weights are objects which weigh a known amount and which people lift as a form of exercise . I was in the gym lifting weights. Weights are metal objects which weigh a known amount and which are used on a set of scales to weigh other things. You can refer to a heavy object as a weight, especially when you have to lift it. Straining to lift heavy weights can lead to a rise in blood pressure. If something is given a particular weight, it is given a particular value according to how important or significant it is. The scientists involved put different weight on the conclusions of different models. We had this understanding that courses were roughly the same weight. If you talk about the weight of something, you mean that it is large in amount or has great power, which means that it is difficult to oppose or fight against. The weight of expectation was getting to them. Companies found themselves collapsing under the weight of debts. If someone or something gives weight to what a person says, thinks, or does, they emphasize its significance . The fact that he is gone has given more weight to fears that he may try to launch a civil war. Do you think, perhaps, that what happened today might lend weight to that criticism? If you give something or someone weight, you consider them to be very important or influential in a particular situation. This might have been avoided had ministers placed more weight on scientific advice. ...the overwhelming weight Freud assigned parents in our development. If you feel a weight on you, you have a problem or a responsibility that is difficult for you to manage and that you are very worried about. The relief was indescribable. A great weight lifted from me. verb If you weight something, you make it heavier by adding something to it, for example in order to stop it from moving easily . It can be sewn into curtain hems to weight the curtain and so allow it to hang better. If you weight things, you give them different values according to how important or significant they are. ...a computer program which weights the different transitions according to their likelihood. Responses were weighted by region to more accurately reflect the population. . |
| inflections | weightsweightingweighted |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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