Weight vs. Capacity: What's the Difference?
Weight and Capacity Definitions
Weight
A measure of the heaviness of an object
A contest to guess the weight of a pig.
Capacity
The ability to receive, hold, or absorb something
The storage capacity of a car's trunk.
Weight
The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity.
Capacity
The maximum amount that can be contained
A bin filled to capacity.
Weight
A unit measure of gravitational force
A table of weights and measures.
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Capacity
The power to learn or retain knowledge; mental ability.
Weight
A system of such measures
Avoirdupois weight.
Troy weight.
Capacity
The ability to do, make, or accomplish something; capability
A comedian's capacity for making people laugh.
Weight
A metallic solid used as a standard of comparison in weighing.
Capacity
The maximum or optimum amount that can be produced
Factories operating below capacity.
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Weight
An object used to hold something else down.
Capacity
The quality of being suitable for or receptive to specified treatment
The capacity of elastic to be stretched.
Weight
A counterbalance in a machine.
Capacity
The position in which one functions; role
In your capacity as sales manager.
Weight
(Sports) A heavy object, such as a dumbbell, lifted for exercise or in athletic competition.
Capacity
Legal qualification or authority
The capacity to make an arrest.
Weight
Excessive fat; corpulence
Exercising in order to lose weight.
Capacity
(Electricity) Capacitance.
Weight
(Statistics) A factor assigned to a number in a computation, as in determining an average, to increase or decrease the number's effect on the computation, reflecting its importance.
Capacity
Filling a space with the most it can hold
A capacity crowd at the concert.
Weight
Oppressiveness; pressure
The weight of responsibilities.
Capacity
The ability to hold, receive, or absorb
Weight
The greater part; preponderance
The weight of the evidence is against the defendant.
Capacity
A measure of such ability; volume
Weight
Influence, importance, or authority
Her approval carried great weight.
Capacity
The maximum amount that can be held
It was hauling a capacity load.
The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
A factory operating at less than full capacity.
Weight
Ponderous quality
The weight of the speaker's words.
Capacity
Capability; the ability to perform some task
Weight
(Sports) A classification according to comparative lightness or heaviness. Often used in combination
A heavyweight boxer.
Capacity
The maximum that can be produced.
Weight
The heaviness or thickness of a fabric in relation to a particular season or use. Often used in combination
A summerweight jacket.
Capacity
Mental ability; the power to learn
Weight
A measure of the relative thickness of yarn.
Capacity
A faculty; the potential for growth and development
Weight
To make heavy or heavier
Our backpacks were weighted down with food and other essentials.
Capacity
A role; the position in which one functions
Weight
To cause to feel concerned, sad, or preoccupied; burden or oppress
He was weighted with guilt.
Capacity
Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
Weight
To increase the weight or body of (fabrics) by treating with chemicals.
Capacity
Electrical capacitance.
Weight
(Statistics) To assign weights or a weight to.
Capacity
(operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.
Weight
To cause to have a slant or bias
Weighted the rules in favor of homeowners.
Capacity
Filling the allotted space.
There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
Weight
(Sports) To assign to (a horse) the weight it must carry as a handicap in a race.
Capacity
The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; - used in reference to physical things.
Had our great palace the capacityTo camp this host, we all would sup together.
The capacity of the exhausted cylinder.
Weight
The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
Capacity
The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of understanding or feeling.
Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere passive operations of the mind]; its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favors this; although it can not be denied that there are examples of its usage in an active sense.
Weight
An object used to make something heavier.
Capacity
Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
The capacity of blessing the people.
A cause with such capacities endued.
Weight
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
Capacity
Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
Weight
Importance or influence.
Capacity
Legal or moral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, wills, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
Weight
(weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
He's working out with weights.
Capacity
Ability to perform or produce
Weight
(lubricants) viscosity rating.
Capacity
The susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
The capability of a metal to be fused
Weight
(physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) in restricted circumstances
Capacity
The amount that can be contained;
The gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons
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Capacity
The maximum production possible;
The plant is working at 80 per cent capacity
Weight
(measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
Capacity
A specified function;
He was employed in the capacity of director
He should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary
Weight
(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
Capacity
(computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive;
The capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes
Weight
(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
Capacity
An electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
Weight
(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
Capacity
The power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
Weight
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
Capacity
Tolerance for alcohol;
He had drunk beyond his capacity
Weight
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
Weight
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
Weight
Pressure; burden.
The weight of care or business
Weight
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weight
Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
He was pushing weight.
Weight
One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
Weight
Money.
Weight
Weight class
Weight
(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
Weight
To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
Weight
(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
Weight
To assign weights to individual statistics.
Weight
(transitive) To bias something; to slant.
Weight
To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
Weight
To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
Weight
The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
Weight
The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes.
Weight
Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
For the public all this weight he bears.
[He] who singly bore the world's sad weight.
Weight
Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
In such a point of weight, so near mine honor.
Weight
A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
Weight
A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.
Weight
A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
Weight
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
Weight
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.
Weight
To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Weight
To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
Weight
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.
Weight
The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
Weight
Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; a weight that is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
Weight
The relative importance granted to something;
His opinion carries great weight
Weight
An artifact that is heavy
Weight
An oppressive feeling of heavy force;
Bowed down by the weight of responsibility
Weight
A system of units used to express the weight of something
Weight
A unit used to measure weight;
He placed two weights in the scale pan
Weight
(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
Weight
Weight down with a load
Weight
Present with a bias;
He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders
