Weighted
['weɪtɪd] or ['wetɪd]
Definition
(adj.) adjusted to reflect value or proportion; 'votes weighted according to the size of constituencies'; 'a law weighted in favor of landlords'; 'a weighted average' .
Editor: Quentin--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Weight
Typist: Sadie
Examples
- Then came improved weighted and other safety valves to regulate and control this pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Innocent as it looks at first sight this plea by Woodrow Wilson is weighted with the tradition of a century and a half. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The old-style mangle had a box, weighted with stone, which was reciprocated on rollers, and was run back and forth upon the clothes spread upon a polished table beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Leaden weights are attached to the diver, and his shoes are weighted, that he may be able to descend a ladder, walk about below, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The savage deals largely with crude stimuli; we have weighted stimuli. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After this Mrs. Bulstrode drove to her niece with a mind newly weighted. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The outer rolls _d e_ are pressed against the inner ones _a c_ by a system of weighted levers, and scrapers below remove the crushed grain from the periphery of the rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Then I seized my coat, which was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the leather bag in which I carried my takings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It wants to have a House of Commons which is not weighted with nominees of the landed class, but with representatives of the other interests. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the river. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This was effected by sinking mattresses of willow branches bound together and weighted with stone. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Sadie