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. |
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| 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 h
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| 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, threads, etc.) with mineral or other matter to increase the weight or bulk. |
| 19. | to burden with or as if with weight (often fol. by down): Financial worries have weighted that family down for years. |
| 20. | Statistics. to give a statistical weight to. |
| 21. | to bias or slant toward a particular goal or direction; manipulate: The teacher weighted the test so students who had read both books would make the highest marks. |
| 22. | to assign (a racehorse) a specific weight to carry in a race: The handicapper weighted Dapper Dan with 128 pounds. |
—Idioms| 23. | by weight, according to measurement of heaviness or mass: Rates are determined by weight. |
| 24. | carry weight, to have importance or significance; influence: Her opinion is certain to carry weight. |
| 25. | pull one's weight, to contribute one's rightful share of work to a project or job: We will finish in time if we each pull our weight. Also, pull one's own weight. |
| 26. | throw one's weight around or about, to use one's power and influence, esp. beyond the bounds of propriety, to secure some personal gain. |
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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. |
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| 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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Product Definition–noun | 1. | a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought. |
| 2. | a person or thing produced by or resulting from a process, as a natural, social, or historical one; result: He is a product of his time. |
| 3. | the totality of goods or services that a company makes available; output: a decrease in product during the past year. |
| 4. | Chemistry. a substance obtained from another substance through chemical change. |
| 5. | Mathematics. | a. | the result obtained by multiplying two or more quantities together. |
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