weight almost vs weight nearly

Both 'weight almost' and 'weight nearly' are correct phrases, but they are used in different contexts. 'Weight almost' is used when emphasizing that something is very close to a certain weight, while 'weight nearly' is used to indicate that something is very close to a certain weight but not quite there.

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weight almost

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to emphasize that something is very close to a certain weight.

This phrase is used when you want to stress that something is almost reaching a specific weight, but not quite there yet.

Examples:

The bag of flour weighs almost five pounds.
The suitcase weighs almost 50 pounds.
The baby weighs almost 10 pounds.
The fruit basket weighs almost 3 kilograms.
The car weighs almost a ton.

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The Panamera has almost perfect weight distribution.
almost the weight of a quarter.
The v-12 has almost perfect weight balance between the front and rear wheels, and it only weighs 110 pounds more than the v-8 despite the extra cylinders.
It has almost no weight.
I'm almost back to my fighting weight.
I'd have done almost anything To get out from under the weight of it all.
According to my information, there is also almost unanimous support in the Council for increasing the maximum weight.
T'Stig making use of the BMW's brilliant 50-50 weight distribution, and now two almost perfect doughnuts.
The dragons can eat almost their own body weight in one meal.
No one can yet be convicted in Europe of illegal activity, but the weight of evidence suggests that European law has almost certainly been breached in a number of Member States and applicant countries.
I think you lost weight, man. I can get my arms almost all the way around you.
With both designs, there's a lock at each end of the bed, but even without those, the weight of one's lover sleeping on top means that it's almost impossible to escape.
The maximum take-off weight of a fully loaded 707 is almost 334,000 pounds
I think you almost got 10% of your body weight gained, so you've pretty much gained 17 pounds in 12 days.
38 patients gained >= 15% and almost a third gained >= 25% of their baseline body weight.
And important to note that almost all of the weight, all of the people in this organization are at the bottom.
The double-deck trailers are up to a maximum height of 4.9 metres and can allow almost double the amount of low density freight to be transported in a single vehicle whilst remaining within weight limits.
The representatives of the Democratic Party in Romania are now almost three times more numerous in this forum, and, following our victory, the PPE-DE weight in the European Parliament has increased by almost 4%.
I'm almost back to the weight I was when we got married!
Four studies of ACOMPLIA in overweight and obese patients were carried out, involving almost 7,000 patients, whose weight at the start of the studies was on average 94 to 104 kg.

Alternatives:

nearly weight
almost weigh
just about weight
practically weight
virtually weight

weight nearly

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate that something is very close to a certain weight but not quite there.

This phrase is used when you want to convey that something is almost at a specific weight, but falls slightly short of it.