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Weight Definition–noun | 1. | the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs. | | 2. | Physics. the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass. | | 3. | a system of units for expressing heaviness or mass: avoirdupois weight. | | 4. | a unit of heaviness or mass: The pound is a common weight in English-speaking countries. | | 5. | a body of determinate mass, as of metal, for using on a balance or scale in weighing objects, substances, etc. | | 6. | a specific quantity of a substance that is determined by weighing or that weighs a fixed amount: a half-ounce weight of gold dust. | | 7. | any heavy load, mass, or object: Put down that weight and rest your arms. | | 8. | an object used or useful solely because of its heaviness: the weights of a clock. | | 9. | a mental or moral burden, as of care, sorrow, or responsibility: Knowing you are safe takes a weight off my mind. | | 10. | importance, moment, consequence, or effective influence: an opinion of great weight. | | 11. | Statistics. a measure of the relative importance of an item in a statistical population. | | 12. | (of clothing, textiles, etc.) | a. | relative heaviness or thickness as related to warmth or to seasonal use (often used in combination): a winter-weight jacket. | | b. | relative heaviness or thickness as related to use: a bolt of coat-weight woolen cloth. | | | 13. | Printing. (of type) the degree of blackness or boldness. | | 14. | (esp. in boxing) a division or class to which a contestant belongs according to how much he weighs: two brothers who fight professionally in the same weight. | | 15. | the total amount the jockey, saddle, and leads must weigh on a racehorse during a race, according to the conditions of the race: Jacinto has a weight of 122 pounds in the seventh race. | | 16. | the stress or accent value given a sound, syllable, or word. | –verb (used with object) | 17. | to add weight to; load with additional weight: to weight sacks before dumping them overboard. | | 18. | to load (fabrics,
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Loss Definition–noun | 1. | detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery. | | 2. | something that is lost: The painting was the greatest loss from the robbery. | | 3. | an amount or number lost: The loss of life increased each day. | | 4. | the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had: the loss of old friends. | | 5. | death, or the fact of being dead: to mourn the loss of a grandparent. | | 6. | the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.: to discover the loss of a document. | | 7. | a losing by defeat; failure to win: the loss of a bet. | | 8. | failure to make good use of something, as time; waste. | | 9. | failure to preserve or maintain: loss of engine speed at high altitudes. | | 10. | destruction or ruin: the loss of a ship by fire. | | 11. | a thing or a number of related things that are lost or destroyed to some extent: Most buildings in the burned district were a total loss. | | 12. | Military. | a. | the losing of soldiers by death, capture, etc. | | b. | Often, losses. the number of soldiers so lost. | | | 13. | Insurance. occurrence of an event, as death or damage of property, for which the insurer makes indemnity under the terms of a policy. | | 14. | Electricity. a measure of the power lost in a system, as by conversion to heat, expressed as a relation between power input and power output, as the ratio of or difference between the two quantities. | —Idiom | 15. | at a loss, | a. | at less than cost; at a financial loss. | | b. | in a state of bewilderment or uncertainty; puzzled; perplexed: We are completely at a loss for an answer to the problem. | | |
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Patch Definition–noun | 1. | a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket. | | 2. | a piece of material used to cover or protect a wound, an injured part, etc.: a patch over the eye. | | 3. | an adhesive patch that applies to the skin and gradually delivers drugs or medication to the user: using a nicotine patch to try to quit smoking. | | 4. | any of the pieces of cloth sewed together to form patchwork. | | 5. | a small piece, scrap, or area of anything: a patch of ice on the road. | | 6. | a piece or tract of land; plot. | |
| 7. | a small field, plot, or garden, esp. one in which a specific type of plant grows or is cultivated: a cabbage patch; a bean patch. | | 9. | Military. a cloth emblem worn on the upper uniform sleeve to identify the military unit of the wearer. | | 10. | a small organizational or affiliational emblem of cloth sewn to one's jacket, shirt, cap, etc. | | 11. | a connection or hookup, as between radio circuits or telephone lines: The patch allowed shut-ins to hear the game by telephone. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to mend, cover, or strengthen with or as if with a patch or patches. | | 13. | to repair or restore, esp.
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