ˈbɜːdn ˈbɝdn ˈbɜː(r)ðən ˈslænt weɪt weɪt present with a bias He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders weight down with a load an artifact that is heavy sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity the relative importance granted to something his opinion carries great weight the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed an oppressive feeling of heavy force bowed down by the weight of responsibility (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance a unit used to measure weight he placed two weights in the scale pan a system of units used to express the weight of something