Plummet vs. Weight

Plummetnoun

(archaic) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water, a plumb bob or a plumb line

Weightnoun

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

Plummetnoun

(archaic) Hence, any weight

Weightnoun

An object used to make something heavier.

Plummetnoun

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

Weightnoun

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

Plummetnoun

A plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line

Weightnoun

Importance or influence.

Plummetnoun

Violent or dramatic fall

Weightnoun

(weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.

‘He's working out with weights.’;

Plummetnoun

(figuratively) A decline; a fall; a drop

Weightnoun

(physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

Plummetverb

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

‘After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.’;

Weightnoun

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

Plummetnoun

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

‘I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded.’;

Weightnoun

(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.

Plummetnoun

A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.

Weightnoun

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

Plummetnoun

Hence, any weight.

Weightnoun

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

Plummetnoun

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

Weightnoun

(visual art) The illusion of mass.

Plummetnoun

the metal bob of a plumb line

Weightnoun

(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

Plummetverb

drop sharply;

‘The stock market plummeted’;

Weightnoun

Pressure; burden.

‘the weight of care or business’;

Plummetverb

fall or drop straight down at high speed

‘a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully’;

Weightnoun

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

Plummetverb

decrease rapidly in value or amount

‘hardware sales plummeted’;

Weightnoun

Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

‘He was pushing weight.’;

Plummetnoun

a steep and rapid fall or drop

‘the bird has a circular display flight followed by an earthward plummet’;

Weightverb

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

Plummetnoun

a plumb or plumb line.

Weightverb

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

Weightverb

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

Weightverb

To assign weights to individual statistics.

Weightverb

(transitive) To bias something; to slant.

Weightverb

To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

Weightverb

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

Weightnoun

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.

Weightnoun

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.

‘For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes.’;

Weightnoun

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

‘For the public all this weight he bears.’; ‘[He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.’;

Weightnoun

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

‘In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.’;

Weightnoun

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

Weightnoun

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

‘A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.’;

Weightnoun

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

Weightnoun

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

Weightverb

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.

‘The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense.’;

Weightverb

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

Weightverb

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

Weightverb

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.

Weightnoun

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

Weightnoun

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

Weightnoun

the relative importance granted to something;

‘his opinion carries great weight’;

Weightnoun

an artifact that is heavy

Weightnoun

an oppressive feeling of heavy force;

‘bowed down by the weight of responsibility’;

Weightnoun

a system of units used to express the weight of something

Weightnoun

a unit used to measure weight;

‘he placed two weights in the scale pan’;

Weightnoun

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

Weightverb

weight down with a load

Weightverb

present with a bias;

‘He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders’;

Weight

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.