Gravity
Nouns
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gravity, gravitation
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weight
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heaviness etc. adj.
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specific gravity
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pondorosity, pressure, load
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burden, burthen
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ballast, counterpoise
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lump of, mass of, weight of. lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion. weighing, ponderation, trutination
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weights
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avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight
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grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod. [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram
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nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram. [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge
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spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance
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postal scale, baby scale. [Science of gravity] statics.
Verbs
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be heavy etc. adj.
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gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load. [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adjectives
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weighty
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weighing etc. v.
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heavy as lead
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ponderous, ponderable
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lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome
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cumbrous, unwieldy, massive. incumbent, superincumbent.