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Turgot
- noun - French economist who in 1774 was put in control of finances by Louis XVI; his proposals for reforms that involved abolishing feudal privileges made him unpopular with the aristocracy and in 1776 he was dismissed (1727-1781)
Waught
- - A large draught of any liquid.
Weight
- noun - (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- a unit used to measure weight; "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force; "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
- present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
- 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
- the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- weight down with a load
- what a person weights.
Widget
- noun - a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use"
Wright
- noun - influential United States architect (1869-1959)
- someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
- United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912)
- United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)
- United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852)
- United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
- United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)