Weigh

Verb

 * 1)  To determine the weight of an object.
 * 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.
 * 1)  To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
 * You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
 * 1)  To consider a subject.
 * 2) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 251b-c.
 * For anyone can weigh in with the quick objection that it is impossible for what is many to be one
 * 1)  To have a certain weight.
 * I weigh ten and a half stone.
 * 1)  To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
 * 2)  To weigh anchor.
 * 3) * 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
 * Towards the evening we wayed, and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.

Derived terms

 * weigh down
 * weigh in/weigh-in
 * weight


 * weighty
 * weigh up
 * weigh on

Adverbs for Weigh
gravely; judiciously; reflectively; empirically; correctly; onerously; heavily; minutely; momentously; ponderously.

Thesaurus
amount to something, analogize, appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assimilate, balance, be abstracted, be featured, be heavy, be influential, be persuasive, be prominent, be somebody, be something, bring into analogy, bring into comparison, brood, calculate, calibrate, caliper, carry, carry weight, catalog, categorize, charge, check a parameter, chew the cud, class, classify, compare, compare and contrast, compare with, compute, confront, consider, contemplate, contrast, count, counterbalance, counterpose, cumber, cut ice, cut some ice, debate, deliberate, dial, digest, divide, draw a comparison, draw a parallel, encumber, estimate, evaluate, excogitate, factor, fathom, gauge, get top billing, graduate, group, have an in, have full play, have influence, have personality, have pull, have weight, heft, hold the scales, identify, import, introspect, lade, lie heavy, liken, liken to, load, lumber, match, matter, measure, measure against, meditate, mensurate, metaphorize, mete, meter, militate, mind, muse, oppose, pace, parallel, perpend, place against, play around with, play with, plumb, ponder, prize, probe, quantify, quantize, rate, reflect, register, relate, ruminate, run a comparison, saddle, set in contrast, set in opposition, set off against, set over against, sift, signify, similize, size, size up, sort, sort out, sound, span, speculate, stand out, star, step, strike a balance, study, survey, take a reading, tax, tell, think over, thrash out, tip the scales, toy with, triangulate, valuate, value, view together, weigh against, weigh heavy, weigh in, weigh out, weight, winnow

Etymology
wegan:, from Germanic. Cognate with Scots wey or weich, Dutch wegen, German wiegen.

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Bulgarian: претеглям
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: lemér
 * Japanese: 重さを計る


 * Kurdish:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: взвешивать (vzv'éšivat’), взвесить (vzv'ésit’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తూగు (toogu)
 * Turkish: tartmak


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kimér
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: взвешивать (vzv'éšivat’), взвесить (vzv'ésit’)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: (upp)
 * Turkish: tartmak


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Russian: взвешивать (vzv'éšivat’), взвесить (vzv'ésit’)
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Japanese: 気に掛ける


 * Russian: взвешивать (vzv'éšivat’), взвесить (vzv'ésit’)


 * Bulgarian: тежа
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: весить (v'ésit')
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: вдигам (котва)
 * Finnish: nostaa (ankkuri)


 * Japanese: 抜錨する, 錨を上げる


 * : (wázana)
 * : 稱 (chèng)
 * : wegen
 * : שקל (shaqal)
 * : súlya van
 * : pesare
 * : 무게를 달다 (mugereul dalda)
 * : pesar