Plummet vs. Weight — What's the Difference?

Fall or drop straight down at high speed

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the gravitational force.

A steep and rapid fall or drop

A measure of the heaviness of an object

A plumb or plumb line.

The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity.

See plumb bob.

A unit measure of gravitational force

Something that weighs down or oppresses; a burden.

A system of such measures

To fall straight down; plunge.

A metallic solid used as a standard of comparison in weighing.

To decline suddenly and steeply

An object used to hold something else down.

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.

A counterbalance in a machine.

(archaic) Hence, any weight.

(Sports) A heavy object, such as a dumbbell, lifted for exercise or in athletic competition.

(archaic) A piece of lead formerly used by schoolchildren to rule paper for writing (that is, to mark with rules, with lines).

Excessive fat; corpulence

A violent or dramatic fall.

(Statistics) A factor assigned to a number in a computation, as in determining an average, to increase or decrease the number's effect on the computation, reflecting its importance.

(figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop.

Oppressiveness; pressure

(intransitive) To drop swiftly, in a direct manner; to fall quickly.

The greater part; preponderance

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.

Influence, importance, or authority

Hence, any weight.

Ponderous quality

A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.

(Sports) A classification according to comparative lightness or heaviness. Often used in combination

The metal bob of a plumb line

The heaviness or thickness of a fabric in relation to a particular season or use. Often used in combination

Drop sharply;

A measure of the relative thickness of yarn.

To make heavy or heavier

To cause to feel concerned, sad, or preoccupied; burden or oppress

To increase the weight or body of (fabrics) by treating with chemicals.

(Statistics) To assign weights or a weight to.

To cause to have a slant or bias

(Sports) To assign to (a horse) the weight it must carry as a handicap in a race.

The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

An object used to make something heavier.

A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.

Importance or influence.

(weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.

(lubricants) viscosity rating.

(physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) in restricted circumstances

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(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.

(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.

(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.

(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.

(visual art) The illusion of mass.

(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

Pressure; burden.

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.

Money.

Weight class

(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

To assign weights to individual statistics.

(transitive) To bias something; to slant.

To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.

Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.

Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.

A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.

A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.

To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

To assign a numerical value expressing relative importance to (a measurement), to be multiplied by the value of the measurement in determining averages or other aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the test twice as heavily as part 2.

The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

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

The relative importance granted to something;

An artifact that is heavy

An oppressive feeling of heavy force;

A system of units used to express the weight of something

A unit used to measure weight;

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Weight down with a load

Present with a bias;