Verb (used with object) : to weight sacks before dumping them overboard. ,Financial worries have weighted that family down for years. ,The teacher weighted the test so students who had read both books would make the highest marks. ,The handicapper weighted Dapper Dan with 128 pounds.    From Dictionary.com. 

Relevancy ranking, based on automatic term weighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

The weighting is 50: 50 between the fans and Judge Panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Awards Watch » Sky Awards] Reference

· Provides a number of parameter-free DFR term weighting models for automatic query expansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

The only way for the public to guage the effects of weighting is to look at the demographic numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [David C. Wilson: O'Donnell Closes Gap, or Coons up Big? The Dirt in Poll Details] Reference

The FAST Query Language, which supports advanced query operators like XRANK for dynamic (query time) term weighting and ranking.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference

Thesaurus files also permit you to configure the word weighting and word stemming options in a replacement set or an expansion set.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

Any poll which doesn't post the weighting is a fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

And Con, resting in his oaken coffin, gold coins weighting his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Moon of Avalon] Reference

They're backing it up by being heavily defensive in a rising market, namely weighting their stock portfolios with two-thirds cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recovery? Run For Cover!] Reference

Was it a propoer poll with some kind of weighting and banding?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tories Set to Become Largest Opposition Party in Wales] Reference

It is then taken out, and after rinsing is ready for the "weighting" operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

They do weird "weighting" things on the numbers in the backroom they don't talk too much about.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Did Palin Help McCain Among White Women?"] Reference

And should the superdelegates take into account the kind of weighting the party intended for assigning delegates?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoveOn Petition On Super-Dels: Over A Quarter Million Signatures And Counting] Reference

And then there was the issue of what relative 'weighting' should be given to the Queen, the entourage, and the lorry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lib-Con Coalition in Montgomeryshire.] Reference

Xisithrus says: rasmussen uses 'weighting' in their polling methodology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference

Evaluating with a little script shows that this kind of weighting is not correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom9's Forum] Reference

Is their anytning that would remove this, such as some kind of weighting bias reduction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [House Price Crash News Blog] Reference

That said, I'm not talking about "weighting" as in coefficients on each factor, but rather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Informed Speculation] Reference

No. What that pyramid represents is the "weighting" philosophy I've mentioned a few times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boagworld recommends] Reference

I'm supposed to get more answers on this and the 'weighting' process of the pollster at some point.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Daily News] Reference

To give some kind of weighting to the output, it is ordered by the number of times the routine has been used.    From Wordnik.com.  [SQLServerCentral.com Articles] Reference

Ping pong is less strength-demanding compared with other competitive sport events such as weighting and bowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

It amounted to 6 000 gold coins weighting 82 kg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)] Reference

It is assigned a 5% weighting in the overall 2010 ranking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodology] Reference

Curriculum vitaePay From £34,000 to £42,000 with London weighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [A working life: The Tower Bridge operator] Reference

This is largely attributable to a stronger weighting of bonds to equities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volatility Plagues Pension Funds] Reference

Eberly calls on Newsweek "to release fully the effects of it's weighting.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek Poll 'Cooked?' Please] Reference

The evaluation includes a weighting that reflects real-world accident patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [IIHS midsized sedan bumper test–None rated Good] Reference

And so I would tend to maybe go a little away from cap weighting into looking at GDP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avoid China At Your Own Risk, Says Malkiel] Reference

The three basic weighting methods are represented by the Security weighting classification.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Find Your Way Through The ETF Maze] Reference

"This report is based on public data and equal weighting is given to all brands," she added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brands Bounce Back, With Some Casualties] Reference

Keep Japan in the index, and it overwhelms the other countries with an 80 percent weighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overseas Made Easy] Reference

A simple Google search on "weighting by party ID" will quickly yield a full explanation and more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek Poll 'Cooked?' Please] Reference

Part of the weighting assigned to raw debt in the 2009 ranking was assigned to this variable this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodology] Reference

The weighting of this component decreased to 12.5% this year from the 20% weighting it received in the 2009 ranking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodology] Reference

Even if you love your company, 10 percent of your retirement fund is probably the most weighting you'll want to give it.    From Wordnik.com.  [401(K) Plans: Assets Ho!] Reference

With the Democratic party hierarchy shamelessly weighting election outcomes, corporations are the victors, not the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Swenson: The Democratic Party Has Abandoned a Large Part of Its Base] Reference

All indexes are formed using two separate sets of rules, a security selection rules set and a security weighting method rules set.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Find Your Way Through The ETF Maze] Reference

You know, people try to do light-weighting programs by taking existing cars and taking the weigh out, and that really doesn't work.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Spur Innovation, Offer Millions In Cash Prizes] Reference

This score was then entered into the master ranking consistent with this component's 5% weighting in the overall 2010 Forbes ranking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodology] Reference