Assert and Weight

assert

State categorically.
- synonyms: asseverate, maintain
To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
- usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
- synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
- usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
- synonyms: put forward
Assert to be true.
- usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
- synonyms: insist

(v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
(v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
(v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

weight

The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.
Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms.
- synonyms: free weight, exercising weight
The relative importance granted to something.
- usage: "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
- synonyms: weightiness
An artifact that is heavy.
An oppressive feeling of heavy force.
- usage: "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
A system of units used to express the weight of something.
- synonyms: system of weights
A unit used to measure weight.
- usage: "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
- synonyms: weight unit
Statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance.
- synonyms: weighting

Weight down with a load.
- synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down
Present with a bias.
- usage: "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
- synonyms: slant, angle

(v.t.) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
(v.t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v.t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
(v.t.) A scale or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v.t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v.t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Either Gross' Weight', Net Weight, or Tare Weight.