Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

    beschweren, gewichten

    weight down with a load

  2. To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

    (transitive)To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.

  3. (transitive)To load, burden or oppress someone.

  4. (transitive)To assign weights to individual statistics.

    gewichten

  5. (transitive)To bias something; to slant.

    The criteria governing the choice of candidate were heavily weighted in his favor.

    present with a bias

  6. (transitive)To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

  7. (transitive)To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Examples

1445 sentences
  1. I'm just worried about my weight.

    Я просто занепокоєний моєю вагою. — brambury

    deIch mach mir nur Sorgen um mein Gewicht. — virgil

  2. He tried to reduce his weight.

    Він намагався схуднути. — deniko

  3. She really wants to lose weight.

    Вона дуже хоче схуднути. — deniko

    ruОна очень хочет похудеть. — pandabear

    deSie will wirklich abnehmen. — Yorwba

  4. I'm very worried about my weight.

    Я дуже стурбований своєю вагою. — deniko

    ruМеня очень беспокоит мой вес. — averoes

    deIch mache mir große Sorgen um mein Gewicht. — Yorwba

  5. I have to lose some weight.

    Мені треба трохи схуднути. — deniko

    ruМне надо немного похудеть. — marafon

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
add weight:

Origin

From Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht (“weight”)

From Middle English weight, weiȝte, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ġewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *weganą (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”). Equivalent to weigh + -t (abstract nominal suffix).

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Forms

weights, weighting, weighted, weighted
Base formweight · to weight
3rd person singularweights
Present participleweighting
Past simpleweighted
Past participleweighted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyweight
he, she, itweights

Past simpleLesson

all personsweighted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave weighted
he, she, ithas weighted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill weight

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Collocations

12 patterns
  • lose weight
  • to lose weight
  • lose some weight
  • lot of weight
  • gained weight
  • the same weight
  • put on weight
  • some weight
  • a little weight
  • same weight as
  • same weight
  • much weight

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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