Crossword clues for weighted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weight \Weight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Weighting.]
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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.
--Coleridge. (Astron. & Physics) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
(Dyeing) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
(Math.) 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.
Wiktionary
1 Having weights on it. 2 biased, so as to favour one party. 3 (context graph theory of a graph English) having values assigned to its edges 4 (rfdef: English) v
(en-past of: weight)
WordNet
adj. made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids" [syn: leaden]
adjusted to reflect value or proportion; "votes weighted according to the size of constituencies"; "a law weighted in favor of landlords"; "a weighted average"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "weighted".
The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.
The bong was half a meter tall and had a weighted base covered in soft false suede.
Lilliputian, a chit, a fingerling, a pigwidgeon, a mite, a dandiprat, a micromorph, an homunculus, a dapperling, a small fry or someone with bad posture, weighted down with the cares of the world?
Elz6ar Goulet, weighted down with chains, and dropped through a fishing-hole in the Red River ice.
His sleep that night, in a corner of the hall on a straw pallet, like most of the men of the household, was filled with imageless dreams of breathless, weighted anger, a pressure that seemed to clog the very ether.
The pungent aroma wafting from the kitchen smelled of jent leaf and koroil: she always prepared a late-night snack for him, knowing how hungry he would be after long, hard hours spent casting and pulling in the weighted net.
A sense of imminence weighted the air, and here came the Juggers, looming through the passages.
Two myn carried something and by their walk it seemed to be a litter, their hands were weighted just right, one pulled forward and the other back.
What heart weighted with the agony of remorse will not feel the sting of guilt more keen in the rememberance of the blissful days of innocence and childhood?
He dyes the hair on his head jet black, and it is slicked back and teased into long greasy curls weighted with silver beads.
Elder stepped back out of its arc, pulled the trigger of his pistol, and Stu felt a heavy but painless boxing glove weighted with lead shot land on his chest.
All those stately kayaks, umiaks, York boats and peterheads were displaced by functional 14- or 24foot square-stern aluminum canoes, weighted down with 25- or 45-h.
There was once a ballet dancer who, in Budapest, Vienna, and Copenhagen, was knitting rompers and jackets for a baby that had long lain buried at the edge of Oliva Forest, weighted down with stones.
He clubbed a beater with the weighted butt of a short spear, knocked him out briefly.
Perhaps there would be a moory marsh on one side of the ridge, and a forest of thirty thousand acres on the other, with all the great branches weighted in white.