weight – English noun declension

English noun forms of weight

Noun: weight
Singularweight
Pluralweights

Sample Sentences

  • I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate. [1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116]
  • "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said. [1945, Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., page 11:]
  • He's working out with weights. Weight-bearing exercise is now understood to be just as important as cardio.
  • I prefer weights over machines.
  • I'm the same weight as I was ten years ago.
  • Even though it's got its two features of color and hardness, it doesn't know how much importance or, as computer scientists say, weight to place on each of them. [2017, Up and Atom, Machine Learning Explained in 5 Minutes:]
  • “Logits” are the vectors of weights. [2024, Laura Masbruch, Pasta Land:]
  • font weight
  • If you'd like to use a different weight of yarn, just check the label for the recommended crochet hook size and use that. [2011 August 23, Carmen Heffernan, “How to make colourful crocheted flowers”, in The Guardian:]
  • The weight of the finished thread also varies with the spinner, although the general aim is laceweight singles for weaving. [2026, Elise Young, “Yagaa: Reviving Sericulture in Southern Mexico”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 16:]
  • the weight of care or business
  • The waight of this ſad time we muſt obey[…] [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 309, column 2:]
  • For the public all this weight he bears. [1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:]
  • He was pushing weight.
  • The three of us were hanging out rapping in Hamilton projects with some niggahs Pimp had got tight with on Rikers Island. Them fools had done a push-in and took over some old lady's apartment, and they were in there cutting crack and mixing weight. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:]
  • [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. [2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement, page 5:]
  • The ones the CIB should be looking out for, to her mind, were the officers who raided a flat, found a couple of weights of cannabis and stashed half of it before they made the collar. The cannabis would make its way back on to the street […] [2009, Martina Cole, The Ladykiller:]
  • No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight. [1974, Martin R. Haskell, Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency, page 96:]
  • You’re no match for ’em. You ain’t up to their weight. It’s like little Black Strap standing up to Tom Spring,—the Black’s a pretty fighter but, Law bless you, his arm ain’t long enough to touch Tom,—and I tell you, you’re going it with fellers beyond your weight. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. 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).
2. Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”), Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”), German Wucht (“massiveness, force”), Gewicht (“weight”). See: Middle English Nouns 'weight', Old English Nouns 'wiht', Dutch Nouns 'gewicht', German Nouns 'Wucht'.

Verbs referencing "weight"

German Nouns Gewicht, German Nouns Wucht, Danish Nouns vægt.