Wait or wait means to spend time until an expected event occurs, or the time spent expecting the event--
Wait until Mom gets home.
The kids can't wait until vacation!
Most people hate to wait in line.
There is always a long wait in that store.
Weight or weight ( rhymes with wait ) is a measure of how heavy something is--
Dieters check their weight often.
The weight of his schoolbag was too much.
The Bureau of Weights and Measures checks that store scales are accurate.
Some athletes work out with weights.
Weighed or weighed is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago) form of "weigh"--to check how heavy something is--
The nurse weighed the baby to check on her health.
She weighed a lot more before she went on a diet.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"After dieting for so long, she couldn't wait to be weighed to see if her weight had gone down."
Note--not to be confused with "wade" ( rhymes with weighed ), meaning to walk through or in shallow water--
They like to wade in the creek when the weather is hot.
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