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 gr
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eat 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 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. | | From Dictionary
Watcher Definition–noun | 1. | a person who watches or who keeps watch. | | 2. | an analytic observer of trends, fashions, events, celebrities, or the like: Fashion watchers will have noted that pleats have become popular again. | | 3. | a professional or experienced observer and analyst of political and historic trends and events, countries, or the like: China watchers in the State Department predict a change in that country's trade policy. | | From Dictionary
Point Definition–noun | 1. | a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger. | | 2. | a projecting part of anything: A point of land juts into the bay. | | 3. | a tapering extremity: the points of the fingers. | | 4. | something having a sharp or tapering end: a pen point. | | 5. | a pointed tool or instrument, as an etching needle. | | 6. | a stone implement with a tapering end found in some Middle and Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures and used primarily for hunting. | | 7. | a mark made with or as if with the sharp end of something: Her sharp heels left points
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in the carpet. | | 8. | a mark of punctuation. | | 11. | Phonetics. a diacritic indicating a vowel or other modification of sound. | | 12. | one of the embossed dots used in certain systems of writing and printing for the blind. | | 13. | something that has position but not extension, as the intersection of two lines. | | 14. | a place of which the position alone is considered; spot: We're leaving for Chicago and points west. | | 15. | any definite position, as in a scale, course, etc.: the boiling point. | | 16. | (in acupuncture) a particular spot on the body at which a needle may be inserted, as to relieve pain. | | 17. | Navigation. any of 32 separate horizontal directions, 11° 15′ apart, as indicated on the card of a compass or gauged with reference to the heading of a vessel. | | 19. | a degree or stage: frankness to the point of insult. | | 20. | a particular instant of time: It was at that point that I told him he'd said enough. | | 21. | a critical position in a course of affairs: Morale had reached a low point. | | 22. | a decisive state of circumstances: He reached the point where he could no longer pay his debts. | | 23. | the important or essential thing: the point of the matter. | | 24. | the salient feature of a story, epigram, joke, etc.: to miss the point. | | 25. | a particular aim, end, or purpose: He carried his point. | | 26. | a hint or suggestion: points on getting a job. | | 27. | a single or separate article or item, as in an extended whole; a detail or particular: the fine poi
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nts of a contract. | | 28. | an individual part or element of something: noble points in her character. | | 29. | a distinguishing mark or quality, esp. one of an animal, used as a standard in stockbreeding, judging, etc. | | 30. | points, | a. | the extremities of an animal, esp. a horse or dog. | | b. | Railroads, British. a switch. | | | 31. | a single unit, as in counting. | | 32. | a unit of count in the score of a game: Our team won by five points. | | 33. | (in craps) the number that must be thrown to win but not including 7 or 11 on the first roll: Your point is 4. | | 34. | Ice Hockey. either of two positions, to the right or left of the goal, to which an attacking defenseman is assigned, usually in the execution of a power play, to help keep the puck in the attacking zone. | | 35. | Basketball. a position in the front court, usually taken by the guard in charge of setting up the team's offense. | | 36. | Cricket. | a. | the position of the fielder who plays a short distance in front of and to the offside of the batsman. | | b. | the fielder playing this position. | | | 37. | Chiefly Boxing. the end or tip (of the chin). | | 38. | Hunting. | a. | the action of a hunting dog that indicates the presence and location of game by standing rigid and directing its head toward the game. | | b. | the position taken by a hunting dog in pointing game. | | | 39. | a branch of an antler of a deer: an eight-point buck. | | 40. | Sports. a cross-country run. | | 41. | one of the narrow tapering spaces marked on a backgammon board. | | 42. | Education. a single credit, usually corresponding to an hour's class work per week for one semester. | | 43. | Electricity. | a. | Also called breaker point. either of a pair of contacts tipped with tungsten or platinum that make or break current flow in a distributor, as in an automobile. | | b. | British. an outlet or socket. | | | 44. | Commerce. | a. | a unit of price quotation, as in the U.S., one dollar in stock transactions, one hundredth of a cent in cotton and coffee, or one cent in oil, grain, pork, etc.: The price of stock went up two points today. | | b. | (esp. in motion pictures) a percentage point, usually of the gross profits, granted to someone who agrees to invest or otherwise participate in a business project: The star of the movie recieved a million dollar guarantee and five points. | | | 45. | one percent of the face value of a loan, esp. a mortgage loan, added on as a placement fee or a service charge and paid in advance or upon closing of the loan. | | 46. | Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 1/100 of a carat. | | 47. | Military. | a. | a patrol or reconnaissance unit that goes ahead of the advance party of an advance guard, or follows the rear party of the rear guard. | | b. | the stroke in bayonet drill or combat. | | | 48. | Printing. | a. | a unit of type measurement equal to 0.013835 inch ( 1/72 inch), or 1/12 pica. Compare Didot point system. | | b. | Also called press-point. (in a press) one of several metal prongs for perforating the sheet so that it will be in register when the reverse is printed. | | | 49. | a unit of measure of paper or card thickness, equal to 0.001 inch. | | 52. | any lace made by hand. | | 53. | Heraldry. one of the pendent parts of a label. | | 54. | Railroads. | a. | the vertex of the angle formed at a frog by two rails; the intersection of gauge lines in a switch or frog. | | b. | British. a tapering movable rail, as in a railroad switch. | | | 55. | (in the game of go) any place where lines intersect or meet. | | 57. | Archaic. a tagged ribbon or cord, formerly much used in dress, as for tying or fastening parts. | | 58. | Obsolete. an end or conclusion. | | 59. | Obsolete. a pointed weapon, as a dagger. | –verb (used with object) | 61. | to direct (the finger, a weapon, the attention, etc.) at, to, or upon something. | | 62. | to indicate the presence or position of (usually fol. by out): to point out an object in the sky. | | 63. | to direct attention to (usually fol. by out): to point out the advantages of a proposal. | | 64. | to furnish with a point or points; sharpen: to point a lead pencil. | | 65. | to mark with one or more points, dots, or the like. | | 66. | Sculpture. to transfer measurements of depth from a clay, wax, or plaster model to (a block of stone) by means of an apparatus that drills holes to the required depth prior to carving. | | 67. | to punctuate, as writing. | | 68. | Phonetics. to mark (letters) with points. | | 69. | to separate (figures) by dots or points (usually fol. by off). | | 70. | to give greater or added force to (often fol. by up): to point up the necessity for caution. | | 71. | Hunting. (of a hunting dog) to indicate the presence and location of (game) by standing rigid and facing toward the game. | | 72. | Masonry. | a. | to fill the joints of (brickwork, stonework, etc.) with mortar or cement treated in various ways with tools after application. | | b. | to dress the surface of (a stone) with a pointed tool. | | | 73. | to dress (a stone) with a point. | | 74. | Metalworking. | a. | to narrow the end of (a rod) for passing through the dies of a drawbench. | | b. | to narrow the end of (a tube) over the head of a pin that is gripped to pull the tube through the dies of a drawbench. | | –verb (used without object) | 75. | to indicate position or direction, as with the finger. | | 76. | to direct the mind or thought in some direction; call attention to: Everything points to his guilt. | | 78. | to have a tendency toward something: Economic conditions point to further inflation. | | 79. | to have a specified direction: The sign pointed west. | | 80. | to face in a particular direction, as a building. | | 81. | Hunting. (of a hunting dog)
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to point game. | | 82. | Nautical. to sail close to the wind. | | 83. | (of an abscess) to come to a head. | —Idioms | 84. | at, on, or upon the point of, on the verge of; close to: on the point of death. | | 85. | at this point in time, now; at this precise moment in history: At this point in time the President believes peace has been achieved. | | 86. | in point, that is pertinent; applicable: a case in point. | | 87. | in point of, as regards; in reference to: in point of fact. | | 88. | make a point of, to regard as important; insist upon: She made a point of complimenting her friend's apartment. | | 89. | make points with, Informal. to cu
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rry favor with: to make points with one's boss. Also, make Brownie points with. | | 90. | strain or stretch a point, to depart from the usual procedure or rule because of special circumstances; make a concession or exception: Though the position required three years of previous experience, and he had only two, they stretched a point because of his outstanding record. | | 91. | to the point, pertinent; fitting: The reply was short and to the point. | From DictionaryRelated topics from Britannica |
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