Weight

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.

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.

"You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.

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.

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the weight of care or business

The waight of this ſad time we muſt obey[…]

For the public all this weight he bears.

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.

[I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.

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 […]

No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.

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.

“Logits” are the vectors of weights.

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.

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

The U.K. economy is heavily weighted towards the service sector and the coronavirus pandemic could lead to a 10% fall in gross domestic product in the second quarter, according to economists at Jefferies.

With good peripheral vision he spots his teammate, Ray Evans, lurking in the scoring zone and sweeps a perfectly weighted pass to him.