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(physical) Matter, material.
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A large quantity; a sum.
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The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
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Celebration of the Eucharist.
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(usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
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A musical setting of parts of the mass.
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The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
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An object used to make something heavier.
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A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
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Importance or influence.
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An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
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He's working out with weights.
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(lubricants) viscosity rating.
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Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
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(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
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A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
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The smallest cardinality of a base.
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The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
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(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
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(visual art) The illusion of mass.
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(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
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Pressure; burden.
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the weight of care or business
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The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
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Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
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He was pushing weight.
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One pound (1 lb) of drugs, especially cannabis.
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To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
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To load, burden or oppress someone.
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To assign weights to individual statistics.
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To bias something; to slant.
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To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
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To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.