weigh

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To determine the weight of an object.

2. 2

   Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.

   • He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
3. 3

   To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.

   • You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
   • He took a long time weighing his options.
   • As they started picking features, customers would carefully weigh the choices, but as decision fatigue set in they'd start settling for whatever the default option was.
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   1. 4

      To judge

      To judge; to estimate.

   2. 5

      To consider a subject.

   3. 6

      To have a certain weight.

      • I weigh ten and a half stone.
      • Each half-section of the battery weighs about eight tons, and the two underframes had to be strengthened to take this weight.
   4. 7

      To have weight

      To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.

      • If they ſhall faile, I with mine Enemies Will triumph o're my perſon, which I waigh not, Being of thoſe Vertues vacant.
      • They only weigh the heavier.
   5. 8

      To be considered as important

      To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.

      • Your vowes to her, and me,[…] / Will euen weigh, and both as light as tales.
      • I anſwer, this is a good Objection, and ought to weigh with thoſe whoſe Reading is deſign’d for much Talk and little Knowledge, and I have nothing to ſay to it.
   6. 9

      To raise an anchor free of the seabed.

   7. 10

      To weigh anchor.

      • Towards the euening we wayed, & approaching the ſhoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but ſaw not a Salvage.
      • Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.
   8. 11

      To bear up

      To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.

      • Weigh the vessel up.
   9. 12

      To consider as worthy of notice

      To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

      • Thinke you I weigh this treaſure more than you? Not all the Gold in Indias welthy armes, Shall buy the meaneſt ſouldier in my traine.
      • Them all, and all that ſhe ſo deare did way,[…]
      • Kat. So do not you, for you are a light Wench. / Roſ. Indeed I waigh not you, and therefore light. / Ka. You waigh me not, O that’s you care not for me.
   10. 13

       The act of weighing, of measuring the weight

       • Give the sugar a quick weigh.
   11. 14

       A surname.

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