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weight

English

Etymology

From Middle English weight, wei?te, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ?ewiht (weight), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *wegan? (to move)), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (to move; pull; draw; drive).

Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (weight), Saterland Frisian Wächte (scale) and Gewicht (weight), West Frisian gewicht (weight), Dutch gewicht (weight), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (weight) and German Gewicht (weight).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /we?t/
  • Rhymes: -e?t
  • Homophone: wait

Noun

weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)

  1. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
  2. An object used to make something heavier.
  3. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
  4. Importance or influence.
    • 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116
      Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
    • 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11
      "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
  5. (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
  6. (lubricants) viscosity rating.
  7. (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
  8. (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
  9. (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
  10. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
  11. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
  12. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
  13. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
  14. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
  15. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
  16. Pressure; burden.
  17. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
  18. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
  19. (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
    • 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)
      [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
  20. (criminal slang, dated) Money.
    • 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)
      No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.

Alternative forms

  • wt. (abbreviation)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • weigh

Coordinate terms

  • mass
  • inertial mass
  • gravitational mass

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ???? (ueito)
  • ? Burmese: ???? (wit)

Translations

Verb

weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)

  1. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
    1. (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
  2. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
  3. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
  4. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
  5. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
  6. (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Translations

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prestige

English

Alternative forms

  • præstige (archaic)

Etymology

From French prestige (illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige), from Latin praestigium (a delusion, an illusion). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (conjurer) and prestidigitation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??s?ti(d)?/, /p???sti(d)?/
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /?p??st?d?/
  • Rhymes: -i??, -i?d?

Noun

prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)

  1. The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
  2. (obsolete, often preceded by "the") Delusion; illusion; trick.

Derived terms

  • covert prestige
  • overt prestige
  • prestigious

See also

  • prestigiousness

Translations

Adjective

prestige (not comparable)

  1. (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.

Further reading

  • prestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • prestige in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • prestige at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French prestige, from Latin praestigium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pr?s?ti?.??/
  • Hyphenation: pres?ti?ge
  • Rhymes: -i???

Noun

prestige n (uncountable)

  1. prestige

Derived terms

  • prestigekwestie
  • prestigeproject
  • prestigieus

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: prestise

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praestigium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p??s.ti?/

Noun

prestige m (plural prestiges)

  1. prestige

Derived terms

  • prestigieux

Descendants

Further reading

  • “prestige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From French prestige.

Noun

prestige c

  1. prestige

Declension

Related terms

  • prestigelös

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