Weight vs. Welterweight — What's the Difference?

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.

Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents.

A measure of the heaviness of an object

A weight division in professional boxing having an upper limit of 147 pounds (66.1 kilograms), between junior welterweight and junior middleweight.

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.

A boxer competing in this weight division.

A unit measure of gravitational force

A contestant in various other sports in a similar weight division.

A system of such measures

Alternative spelling of welter-weight

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

Alternative spelling of welter-weight

An object used to hold something else down.

A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.

A counterbalance in a machine.

A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that of a lightweight and that of a middleweight.

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

A weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeple chase or hurdle race)

Excessive fat; corpulence

An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds

(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.

A wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds

Oppressiveness; pressure

A professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds

The greater part; preponderance

Influence, importance, or authority

Ponderous quality

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

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

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;