Talent vs. Weight — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Talent and Weight
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Talent
Natural aptitude or skill
He possesses more talent than any other player
She displayed a talent for garden design
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.
Talent
A former weight and unit of currency, used especially by the ancient Romans and Greeks
A mighty steed bought from a Thessalian merchant for thirteen talents
Weight
A measure of the heaviness of an object
A contest to guess the weight of a pig.
Talent
A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment
Has a rare talent for music.
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Weight
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.
Talent
Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality
The play has a cast of immense talent.
Weight
A unit measure of gravitational force
A table of weights and measures.
Talent
A person or group of people having such ability
The company makes good use of its talent.
Weight
A system of such measures
Avoirdupois weight.
Troy weight.
Talent
A variable unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East.
Weight
A metallic solid used as a standard of comparison in weighing.
Talent
A marked natural ability or skill.
He has a real talent for drawing.
Weight
An object used to hold something else down.
Talent
(historical) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.
Weight
A counterbalance in a machine.
Talent
(obsolete) A desire or inclination for something.
Weight
(Sports) A heavy object, such as a dumbbell, lifted for exercise or in athletic competition.
Talent
People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.
Weight
Excessive fat; corpulence
Exercising in order to lose weight.
Talent
(slang) The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.
Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs.
Weight
(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.
Talent
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents.
Weight
Oppressiveness; pressure
The weight of responsibilities.
Talent
Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
Weight
The greater part; preponderance
The weight of the evidence is against the defendant.
Talent
Inclination; will; disposition; desire.
They rather counseled you to your talent than to your profit.
Weight
Influence, importance, or authority
Her approval carried great weight.
Talent
Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).
He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes.
His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him generally popular.
Weight
Ponderous quality
The weight of the speaker's words.
Talent
Natural qualities or talents
Weight
(Sports) A classification according to comparative lightness or heaviness. Often used in combination
A heavyweight boxer.
Talent
A person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
Weight
The heaviness or thickness of a fabric in relation to a particular season or use. Often used in combination
A summerweight jacket.
Weight
A measure of the relative thickness of yarn.
Weight
To make heavy or heavier
Our backpacks were weighted down with food and other essentials.
Weight
To cause to feel concerned, sad, or preoccupied; burden or oppress
He was weighted with guilt.
Weight
To increase the weight or body of (fabrics) by treating with chemicals.
Weight
(Statistics) To assign weights or a weight to.
Weight
To cause to have a slant or bias
Weighted the rules in favor of homeowners.
Weight
(Sports) To assign to (a horse) the weight it must carry as a handicap in a race.
Weight
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
Weight
An object used to make something heavier.
Weight
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
Weight
Importance or influence.
Weight
(weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
He's working out with weights.
Weight
(lubricants) viscosity rating.
Weight
(physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) in restricted circumstances
Weight
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Weight
(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
Weight
(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
Weight
(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
Weight
(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
Weight
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
Weight
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
Weight
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
Weight
Pressure; burden.
The weight of care or business
Weight
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weight
Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
He was pushing weight.
Weight
One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
Weight
Money.
Weight
Weight class
Weight
(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
Weight
To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
Weight
(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
Weight
To assign weights to individual statistics.
Weight
(transitive) To bias something; to slant.
Weight
To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
Weight
To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
Weight
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.
Weight
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.
Weight
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.
Weight
Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.
Weight
A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
Weight
A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.
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.
Weight
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weight
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.
Weight
To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Weight
To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
Weight
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.
Weight
The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
Weight
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
Weight
The relative importance granted to something;
His opinion carries great weight
Weight
An artifact that is heavy
Weight
An oppressive feeling of heavy force;
Bowed down by the weight of responsibility
Weight
A system of units used to express the weight of something
Weight
A unit used to measure weight;
He placed two weights in the scale pan
Weight
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
Weight
Weight down with a load
Weight
Present with a bias;
He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders
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