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weight

/weɪt/ verbe C1

En français : pondérer, alourdir, lester, appesantir

  1. To add weight to something; to make something heavier. (transitive)
  2. To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight. (transitive)
  3. To load, burden or oppress someone. (transitive)
  4. To assign weights to individual statistics. (transitive)
  5. To bias something; to slant. (transitive) · The criteria governing the choice of candidate were heavily weighted in his favor.
  6. To handicap a horse with a specified weight. (transitive)
  7. To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc. (transitive)

He/she/it weights · Prétérit weighted · Participe passé weighted · Forme en -ing weighting

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Dans la bibliothèque

We tied all his things into a bundle, and I weighted them with the only weight I could find and put them through the window.
The Valley of Fear, p. 98 · C1
Barker—this bundle, weighted with a dumb-bell, which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 88 · C1
When water is near and a weight is missing it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.
The Valley of Fear, p. 88 · C1
The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, “You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 26 · B2

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