The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WEIGHT
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More clues leading to the result WEIGHT
- Importance of what sounds like a demand for patience
- By one’s ear, hang on heavy load
- In hearing, stand by bias
- Bit of worry with number that’s shown on the scales
- Responsibility of Welsh rowing team
- Tungsten cube’s mass
- Maybe stone or white rocks round gulf
- Significance of taking the wig off
- Burden beginning to worry crew
- Stand by as one says mass
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The straight part
We know that "mass" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mass = weight.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does WEIGHT mean?
WEIGHT noun- (physical) Matter, material.
- A large quantity; a sum.
- The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- Celebration of the Eucharist.
- (usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- Importance or influence.
- An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- (lubricants) viscosity rating.
- Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- The smallest cardinality of a base.
- The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- Pressure; burden.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- One pound (1 lb) of drugs, especially cannabis.
- 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.