weighting

as inload
as inload
as inslant
as insling
as intask
as intax
as inweigh down
as inbias
as initalicize
as inlade
as indebase
as indoctor
as inemphasize
as inencumber

Synonyms for weighting

verb burden, saddle

Antonyms for weighting

Word Origin & History

Old English gewiht, from Proto-Germanic *(ga)wekhtiz, *(ga)wekhtjan (cf. Old Norse vætt, Old Frisian wicht, Middle Dutch gewicht, German Gewicht), from *weg- (see weigh). The verb meaning "to load with weight" is attested from 1747; sense in statistics is recorded from 1901. To lose weight "get thinner" is recorded from 1961. Weight Watcher as a trademark name dates from 1960. To pull one's weight (1921) is from rowing.

Example Sentences for weighting

The weighting agents most generally used are sugar and acetate of lead.

It is then taken out, and after rinsing is ready for the “weighting” operations.

Save sample for Experiment 23 and note the effect of weighting on the yarn.

It is supposed to have been used for weighting a fishing net.

Afterwards I circumvented it by weighting it with a stone or propping it up.

"Perhaps he was weighting himself down with water," he thought.

I told 'em it was weighting him out of the race, but they laughed at me.

Glucose and resin are also used for weighting upper leather.

Weighting the envelope with a coin, he threw it into the air.

Kingozi himself worked hard, arranging the loads, covering them with tarpaulins, weighting the edges.