To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
To assign weights to individual statistics.
To bias something; to slant.
To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
The weight or significance given to something, sometimes by means of a statistical multiplier.
Higher weightings were assigned to data from double-blind studies.