credit vs weight

credit

noun
  • A source of value, distinction or honour. 

  • Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust. 

  • A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment). 

  • A unit of currency used in a fictional universe or timeframe. 

  • The time given for payment for something sold on trust. 

  • Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie. 

  • Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts. 

  • An addition to certain accounts; the side of an account on which payments received are entered. 

  • A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid. 

  • A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system. 

  • Recognition for having taken a course (class). 

  • A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation. 

  • Recognition, respect and admiration. 

  • A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid. 

verb
  • To believe; to put credence in. 

  • To acknowledge the contribution of. 

  • To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of. 

  • To add to an account. 

weight

noun
  • Importance or influence. 

  • viscosity rating. 

  • An object used to make something heavier. 

  • Pressure; burden. 

  • An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training. 

  • The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight. 

  • The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. 

  • One pound of drugs, especially cannabis. 

  • The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by). 

  • The smallest cardinality of a base. 

  • A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation. 

  • Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.). 

  • The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes. 

  • Synonym of mass (in general circumstances) 

  • The thickness and opacity of paint. 

  • Shipments of (often illegal) drugs. 

  • Weight class 

  • Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances) 

  • A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object. 

  • The illusion of mass. 

verb
  • To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc. 

  • To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight. 

  • To load, burden or oppress someone. 

  • To bias something; to slant. 

  • To assign weights to individual statistics. 

  • To handicap a horse with a specified weight. 

  • To add weight to something; to make something heavier. 

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