Information conected with the word "Weight"

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• A light bulb in the ceiling needs to be changed, but you don’t have a ladder. Your boyfriend is going to stand on a table to reach it. The table doesn’t seem very strong. You say:
• Are you sure that it’s sturdy enough to support your weight? Source: www.phrasemix.com

• weight
• 1

  amount somebody/something weighs

   [uncountable and countable]how heavy something is when you measure it:
• The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.
• in weight
• fish that are over two kilos in weight
• by weight
• Fruit and vegetables are sold by weight.
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  how fat

   [uncountable] how heavy and fat someone is
• COLLOCATIONS 
• put on/gain weight (=get fatter)
• lose weight (=get thinner)
• watch your weight (=try not to get fatter, by eating the correct foods)
• get/keep your weight down also get/keep the weight off (=become thinner or stay thin)
• weight problem (=a tendency to be too fat)
• weight gain/loss
• weight control (=ways of not getting too fat)
• somebody's ideal weight
• You shouldn't worry about your weight.
• He's put on weight recently.
• She's lost a lot of weight.
• He was having to watch his weight carefully.
• How have you kept your weight down?
• Sara's convinced she has a weight problem.
• a sudden large weight gain
• ➔ overweight, underweight
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  heaviness

   [uncountable] the fact that something is heavy:
• The weight of her boots made it hard for Sue to run.
• I didn't know if the bridge would support our weight.
• under the weight of something
• Karen staggered along under the weight of her backpack.
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  heavy thing

   [countable] something that is heavy:
• I can't lift heavy weights because of my bad back.
• 5

  worry

   [countable] something that causes you a lot of worry because you have to deal with it
• weight of
• She felt a great weight of responsibility.
• families who are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt
• Selling the house is a weight off my mind (=something that no longer causes a lot of worry).
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  importance

   [uncountable] if something has weight, it is important and influences people:
• She knew that her opinion carried very little weight.
• give/add weight to something
• This scandal adds more weight to their arguments.
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  amount

   weight of something

  a large amount of something:
• The weight of evidence is that unemployment leads to all sorts of health problems.
• The weight of public opinion is behind the teachers.
• They won the battle by sheer weight of numbers (=very large numbers of people).
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  for measuring quantities

   [countable] a piece of metal that weighs an exact amount and is balanced against something else to measure how much the other thing weighs
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  for sport

   [countable] a piece of metal that weighs an exact amount and is lifted by people as a sport:
• I've been lifting weights since I was 18.
• ➔ weightlifting
• 10

   throw your weight about/around

  informal to use your position of authority to tell people what to do in an unpleasant and unreasonable way
• 11

   throw your weight behind somebody/something

  to use all your power and influence to support someone or something:
• The US has thrown its weight behind the new leader.
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   pull your weight

  to do your full share of work:
• He accused me of not pulling my weight.
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   take the weight off your feet

  informal used to tell someone to sit down:
• Come in, take the weight off your feet.
• ➔ deadweight

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.