Other Words for Weight

Weight Noun Synonyms
arrange, manipulate, bias, incline, slant, rig
The statistics are weighted so as to make the advertiser's product look superior.

Weight Verb Synonyms
influence, authority, power, substance, force, moment, importance, consequence, impact, persuasiveness, value, worth, clout
Clyde brought down his full weight in favour of the liberal candidate. Clyde's opinion carries little weight with me. He must stop throwing his weight around.

heaviness, avoirdupois, mass, tonnage, heft
They sell peaches by weight but melons are individually priced. The weight of these books must be enormous.

load, charge, ballast
The policemen's truncheons are weighted with lead.

burden, load, millstone, onus, pressure, strain, albatross, cross
He has to support the weight of the entire family's expenses.

mass, majority, preponderance or preponderancy, bulk, superiority
The weight of the voters is in favour of reducing taxes. The weight of the evidence is against us.

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Negative Weight

Entertainment / Bowling / Negative Weight: Weight on a ball that tends to hold back the hook and/or to get the ball into a roll earlier; bottom weight, negative side weight and thumb weight are considered negative weights. These are considered MORE

Dynamic Weights

Entertainment / Bowling / Dynamic Weights: In the old days, before the advent of modern core design in balls, the center of the ball was, more or less, symmetrical. In today's high tech computer designed ball cores and multiple cores designs, MORE

Positive Weight

Entertainment / Bowling / Positive Weight: Weight on a ball that tends to enhance the hook and/or to get the ball into a roll later down the lane; top weight, positive side weight and finger weight are considered positive weights. These are co MORE

Bottom Weight

Entertainment / Bowling / Bottom Weight: The weight of a bowling ball is not always evenly distributed in the sphere. ABC rules allow a ball to vary 3 ounces from the drilled top half to bottom half of a ball, and one ounce from the left to MORE

Underweighted

Business / Taxes / Underweighted: When you own less of a security, an asset class, or a subclass than your target asset allocation calls for, you are said to be underweighted in that security, asset class, or subclass. For example, if MORE

Finger Weight

Entertainment / Bowling / Finger Weight: The drilling of a ball so that the finger holes are closer to the ball's label than is the thumbhole; it is a form of positive weight. MORE