aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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(adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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(verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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(adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
(noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
(noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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(noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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(noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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(verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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(noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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underweight | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy |
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weigela | (noun) deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers | Synonyms: Weigela florida |
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weigh | (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, count |
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(verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: librate |
(verb) have a certain weight | - |
(verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, matter |
(verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: press |
weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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weigher | (noun) an official who weighs and records the weight | - |
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weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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(noun) 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: exercising weight, free weight |
(noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
(noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
(noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
(noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
(noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
(noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
(verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
(verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
weighted | (adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion | - |
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(adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: leaden |
weightily | (adverb) as something very heavy | - |
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(adverb) in a solemn manner | - |
weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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(noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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weightless | (adjective) having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light | - |
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weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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(verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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weighty | (adjective) having relatively great weight; heavy | - |
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(adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund |
(adjective) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry | - |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy |
(adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, telling |
welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
(noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |