Weightiness

Definition

weight /weÇt/ n ၁။ [U] အေလးခ်ိန္။ အခ်ိန္။ Bananas are usually sold by weight. ❍ It's nearly 10 kilos in weight. ❍ She is of average weight for her height. ❍ You must eat less if you want to lose/take off weight (ie become less heavy). ❍ He's put on/gained weight (ie become heavier) since he gave up smoking. See also overweight, underweight ၂။ [U] ေလးျခင္း။ အခ်ိန္စီးျခင္း။ Lead is often used because of its weight. ❍ The weight of the overcoat made it uncomfortable to wear. ၃။ [C, U] ခ်ိန္ဝန္။ tables of weights and measures. ၄။ [C] (က) အေလး။ a 2 lb weight. (ခ) ဟန္ခ်က္ထိန္း အေလး၊ ခဲသီး။ a clock worked by weights ❍ put small weights in the hem of a curtain ❍ The doctor said he must not lift heavy weights. See also paperweight ၅။ [sing] ~ (of sth) (က) ဝန္။ ဝန္အေလး။ The pillars have to support the weight of the roof. ❍ The weight of the water from the burst pipe caused the ceiling to collapse. (ခ) ႀကီးေလးေသာတာဝန္။ ပူပန္ေသာက။ The news was certainly a weight off my mind. ❍ The full weight of decision making falls on her. ၆။ [U] ဩဇာသက္ေရာက္မႈ။ ဩဇာေညာင္းျခင္း။ arguments of great weight ❍ Recent events give added weight to their campaign. ❍ The jury were convinced by the weight of the evidence against her. ❍ Your opinion carries weight with the chairman. v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (down) (with sth) (ေနရာတက် ျဖစ္ေအာင္) အေလးဆြဲသည္၊ ခဲဆြဲသည္။ weighted doors ❍ The net is weighted (down) to keep it below the surface of the water. (ခ) ~ sth (with sth) အေလးပိုးသည္။ The stick had been weighted with lead. ၂။ (esp passive) မဲတင္းေပး သည္။ a law weighted against/towards/in favour of those owning land. ❏ throw one's weight about/around [ IDM ] ( infml ) အရိွန္အဝါ၊ ဩဇာသံုးသည္။ ❏ weighting n [U] ( Brit ) အပိုေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကး။ a London weighting allowance. ❏ weightless adj အေလးခ်ိန္မဲ့ေသာ။ ကမ႓ာ့ဆြဲငင္အားႏွင့္ လြတ္၍ အေလးခ်ိန္မဲ့ေသာ။ weightlessness n [U]: become accustomed to weightlessness in a spacecraft. ❏ weight of numbers [ IDM ] အေရအတြက္မ်ားရာ။ They won the argument by sheer weight of numbers. ❏ weighty adj ( -ier , -iest ) ( rather fml ) ၁။ ေလးနက္ေသာ။ အေရးပါေသာ။ weighty arguments/decisions/matters. ၂။ ေလးလံလြန္းေသာ။ a weighty tome/burden. weightily /-Çli/ adv, weightiness n [U]

Examples

1. [in weight] : It was about 12 pounds in weight.
2. [lose weight] : Have you lost weight?
3. [put on/gain weight] : Susan gained weight after her accident.
4. [weight of] : The weight of the backpack made the child fall over.
5. Tim was stuck under the weight of the fallen tree.
6. He tied weights to the sack and hurled it into the river.
7. The car was not able to pull such a large weight.
8. [add weight to] : A recently discovered inscription has added weight to the theory.
9. [attach weight to] : We attach little weight to this new evidence.
10. [carry weight] : Simpson’s opinions carry considerable weight with the President.
11. [give weight to] : Patten was not inclined to give much weight to their judgment.
12. Susan now bears the full weight of running the family.
13. [a weight off your mind] : Obviously the verdict is a huge weight off my mind.