• noun:   an artifact that is heavy
• noun:   sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; a weight that is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
• noun:   the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
• noun:   the relative importance granted to something

  Example: "His opinion carries great weight"

• noun:   an oppressive feeling of heavy force

  Example: "Bowed down by the weight of responsibility"

• noun:   (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
• noun:   a unit used to measure weight

  Example: "He placed two weights in the scale pan"

• noun:   a system of units used to express the weight of something
• verb:   present with a bias
• verb:   weight down with a load
• name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #16680)

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