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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, threads, etc.) with m
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ineral 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. | | | 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
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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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Review Definition–noun | 1. | a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation. | | 2. | the process of going over a subject again in study or recitation in order to fix it in the memory or summarize the facts. | | 3. | an exercise designed or intended for study of this kind. | | 4. | a general survey of something, esp. in words; a report or account of something. | | 5. | an inspection or examination by viewing, esp. a formal inspection of any military or naval force, parade, or the like. | | 6. | a periodical publication containing articles on current events or affairs, books, art, etc.: a literary review. | | 7. | a judicial reexamination, as by a higher court, of the decision or proceedings in a case. | | 8. | a second or repeated view of something. | | 9. | a viewing of the past; contemplation or consideration of past events, circumstances, or facts. | | 10. | Bridge. a recapitulation of the bids made by all players. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to go over (lessons, studies, work, etc.) in review. | | 13. | to view, look at, or look over again. | | 14. | to inspect, esp. formally or off
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icially: to review the troops. | | 15. | to survey mentally; take a survey of: to review the situation. | | 16. | to discuss (a book, play, etc.) in a critical review; write a critical report upon. | | 17. | to look back upon; view retrospectively. | | 18. | to present a survey of in speech or writing. | | 19. | Law. to reexamine judicially: a decision to review the case. | | 20. | Bridge. to repeat and summarize (all bids made by the players). | –verb (used without object) | 21. | to write reviews; review books, movies, etc., as for a newspaper or periodical: He reviews for some small-town newspaper. | |
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