Weigh

Definition: Weigh

Weigh

Verb

1. Have a certain weight.

2. Show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient".

3. Determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken".

4. Have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much".

5. To be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weigh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Weigh

Gravity

Verb: be heavy. Adjective: gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.

Influence

Verb: have -influence; Noun: be -influential; Adjective: carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.

Thought

Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.

Crosswords: Weigh

Look, kid, I -- how much you weigh, Slick (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Malcolm Johnson; Budd Schulberg)

If you eat like that, then how come, I mean, how come you don't weigh 500 pounds (The Best Little Girl in the World; writing credit: David Moessinger)

weigh it (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

Weigh into them (Patton; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North)

I weigh 80 pounds (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Though their hearts so heavily weigh ('39; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May)

Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh (1940)

The Wrong Weigh (1912)

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Books

• De-Stress, Weigh Less (reference)

• Smart Weigh (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pay Like You Weigh [EP] [EP] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Getting ready to weigh a spotted seal pup - Phoca largha Pup was about 2 months old. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Leatherback sea turtles nest occasionally on the beach at Canaveral National Seashore. The leatherback is an endangered species of sea turtle and is one of the largest in the world. It can grow to be over 6 feet long and weigh over 1,000 pounds. Credit: America's Coastlines.

NMFS samplers ready to weigh and measure anglers' catches. Credit: Fisheries.

The record sunfish, Santa Catalina Island, too heavy to weigh; estimated at 2,500 pounds. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207, Plate V. Credit: Fisheries.

A shellfisherman heads in to weigh the quahogs he harvested for transfer to the spawner sanctuaries. The red bags contain the quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Another shellfishermen unloads his catch at the dock where volunteers weigh the hard shell clams to determine payment for the fishermen and to determine total weight of the transfers to the spawner sanctuaries. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Basalt "log" construction at Nan Madol. Each basalt log is separate column of basalt found in area of columnar jointing and weighs hundreds of pounds. Some logs appear to be sufficiently large to weigh over a ton. Credit: Small World.

Beanfield. Weigh scales, pickers, and sacked beans at edge of field. Near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon. General caption number 46. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to p. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pea pickers coming into the weigh master. Near Calipatria, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A sort of flickering light comes from these wretches, as if conscience ceased to weigh upon them

It is before you must weigh well, not after

Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, You break not sanctuary in seizing him.

These are all very firm fish, and weigh more than their size promises

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In fully developed PKD, a cyst-filled kidney can weigh as much as 22 pounds. (references)

Ninety percent of the infants who develop BPD are premature and weigh less than 1500 grams (3.5 pounds). (references)

Of the 4,100,000 babies born in the United States each year, 106,000 weigh less than 2,000 grams at birth. (references)

Business

Although US equipment in general is very well regarded by the Danish defense forces, there is considerable political pressure to weigh all alternatives, particularly those put forward by local Danish industries. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

Union concerns also weigh heavily in privatizations. (references)

Greece

Private sector purchasers are more likely to weigh price in relation to the quality and after sales support of the goods or services being purchased. (references)

Eritrea

Per the terms of the Cessation of Hostilities agreement, two arbitration commissions have been established, one to demarcate the border, and another to weigh compensation claims by both sides. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

The Supreme Court has instructed magistrates to ensure that unrepresented defendants fully understand their rights and to weigh any mitigating circumstances in criminal cases, whether or not the accused presents them as part of his defense. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

In 1993, the government prohibited the employment of children under the age of 15 as camel jockeys and of jockeys who do not weigh more than 99 pounds. (references)

Trade

Kuwait

The U.S. government generally opposes the attachment of any type of performance requirement to government tenders and has recommended that the Government of Kuwait carefully weigh all the potential costs to itself of an offset program. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "weigh": get under weigh ♦ put on weigh ♦ The Weigh Down Diet ♦ To weigh anchor ♦ To weigh down ♦ under weigh ♦ weigh a mould ♦ weigh again ♦ weigh against ♦ weigh against smb. ♦ weigh anchor ♦ weigh box ♦ weigh bridge ♦ weigh bucket ♦ weigh carefully ♦ weigh down ♦ weigh heavy on ♦ weigh hopper ♦ weigh in ♦ weigh in one's hand ♦ weigh in one's mind ♦ weigh in with ♦ weigh on ♦ weigh on the mind ♦ weigh one's words ♦ weigh oneself ♦ weigh oneself down ♦ weigh out ♦ weigh roughly ♦ weigh the pros and cons ♦ weigh up ♦ weigh upon ♦ weigh upon the heart ♦ weigh with. Additional references.

Beginning with "weigh": weigh-beam, weigh-box, weigh-bridge, weigh-house, Weigh-houses, weigh-in, weigh-in-motion, weigh-ins, weigh-lifter, weigh-loss.

Ending with "weigh": check-weigh, out-weigh, re-weigh.

Albanian

vlerësoj (appraise, appreciate, assess, balance, calculate, cost, esteem, estimate, evaluate, judge, measure, prise, prize, put, rate, value), rëndoj (aggravate, burden, complicate, cumber, encumber, exacerbate, load, weigh down, weigh on), peshoj (balance, calculate, cogitate, look around, ponder, scale, weigh out), njehsoj peshën e trupit, ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, wind up), mat (checkmate, mat, Matt, measure, mete, size, span), mas (admeasure, determine, fit on, measure, mete, size, span), ka rëndësi (import), ka peshë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكر مليا (contemplate, meditate, ponder, reflect, ruminate, think), ‏كان ذا أهمية, ‏قلب الرأي, ‏وزن (authority, avoirdupois, counterweight, metering, scale, weighing, weight, weightiness), ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, labour, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh down, weight), ‏رفع المرساة. (various references)

Blackfoot

ssokááhkiaaki (to weigh). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тегна (weigh on, weigh upon), тежа (attach, press down, ride, scale, weigh on, weigh upon), вдигане на котва, вдигам котва (cat, unanhcor), отплуване (departure, sailing), отплувам (cast off, get under way, pull out, put, put away, put forth, put off, put out, sail, set sail), меря (dial, measure, mete, scale, take measures), мисля (deliberate, figure, guess, imagine, opine, pore, puzzle, puzzle over, reason, reckon, repute, see, suppose, think, ween), преценявам (adjudge, appraise, assess, estimate, figure, gauge, judge, measure, price, put, rate, weigh up), претегляне (weighing), претеглям (scale, weigh up), премерване (measurement), премервам (fit on, measure, size up, try on, weigh out), премислям (change one's mind, ponder, rethink, think better of it, think out, think twice), имам значение (count, cut, import, matter, mean, signify, tell). (various references)

Chinese 

秤重 (Weighed, Weighing), 磅 (a measure word, pound, scale), 約 (agreement, appointment, approximately, to arrange, to restrict), 權衡 (balance). (various references)

Czech

vážit. (various references)

Danish

veje (road). (various references)

Dutch

wegen (roads), het gewicht bepalen, afwegen (measure out). (various references)

Esperanto

pezi, pesi. (various references)

Faeroese

viga. (various references)

Farsi 

کشیدن (Chart, Drag, Draw, Drawl, Entrain, Experience, Figure, Hale, Haul, Heave, Lave, Lengthen, Peg, Pluck, Pull, Strain, Strap, String, Suffer, Trace, Trawl), وزن کردن , وزن داشتن , سنجیدن (Assay, Counterweight, Deliberate, Essay, Evaluate, Measure, Meter, Ponder, Try). (various references)

Finnish

painaa (press, print). (various references)

French

peser. (various references)

German

wiegen (cradle, cradles, dandle, lull, nurse, rock, scale, shake, sway, to dandle, to weigh), abwägen (assess, balance, consider, evaluate, heft, measure, ponder, to balance, weigh up), wägen (ponder), lasten (born, borne, encumbered, encumbrances, oppress, to bear). (various references)

Greek 

ζυγίζω (balance, heft, size up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשקלל, ל�"וסיף משקל, לסלא (estimate, evaluate, value). (various references)

Hungarian

megmér (gauge, measure, to gage, to gauge, to measure, to mete, to weigh), mérlegre tesz, mérlegelés (deliberation, discretion, pondering, reconsideration, scaling), mérés (measurement, measuring, mensuration, meterage, metering, weighing). (various references)

Indonesian

menimbang (review, take into account). (various references)

Irish

meáigh. (various references)

Italian

pesare (balance, be a burden, be heavy, scale, weigh oneself). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

量る (to measure, to survey, to time sound, to weigh), 計る (estimate, gauge, to measure, to survey, to time sound, to weigh), 測る (estimate, gauge, to measure, to survey, to time sound, to weigh). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きにかかる (to weigh on one's mind), きにかける (to trouble one's heart, to weigh on one's mind), にくのめかた�'はかる (to weigh the meat), にらみあわせる (to act in consideration of, to compare and take into consideration, to weigh one thing against the other), かなえのけいちょう�'とう (to call one's ability into question, to weigh one's ability), �"�"ろにかかる (to weigh on one's mind), はかりにかける (to weigh on a scale), はかる (to attempt, to confer, to consult with, to deceive, to design, to devise, to measure, to plan, to plot, to refer A to B, to survey, to take in, to time, to weigh), て�"び�"にかける (to compare and contrast two alternatives, to weigh one's options). (various references)

Korean 

무게를 다십시�". (various references)

Manx

towsh (weigh out), towse (calibre, capacity, divine law, dose, gauge, mark off, size, size up, sum up, summing up, time, tit of gold, value, weigh out; rating), meihaghey (balance, weigh in, weighing in). (various references)

Pig Latin

eighway.(various references)

Polish

ważyć, mieć ciężar. (various references)

Portuguese

pesar (affliction, balance, chagrin, distress, dolor, dolour, grief, load, measure, ordeal, pain, ponder, regret, repentance, rue, sadness, scale, sorrow, trial, trouble, weigh out, weigh up, weight, woe). (various references)

Romanian

se cântãri, ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift), examina (canvass, comb, consider, contemplate, debate, examine, explore, go over, inspect, investigate, look at, look over, observe, overhaul, overlook, peer, pry into, quiz, review, scout, scrutinize, search, study, talk over, verify, view, visit), evalua (appraise, appreciate, assess, compute, cost, estimate, evaluate, guess, measure, put, rate, value), cumpãni (balance, consider, dangle, equipoise, hesitate, measure, ponder, rock, waver), compara (liken, parallel), chibzui (arrange, calculate, consider, ponderate, reflect, ruminate, think), cântãri (appraise, appreciate, balance, estimate, examine, measure, value), atârna (beetle, depend, flap, flow, hang, loll, lop, suspend), aprecia (appraise, appreciate, assess, consider, deem, determine, estimate, feel, gauge, guess, judge, measure, prize, put, rate, reckon, score, see, value), a-şi mãsura (measure), a-şi cântãri. (various references)

Russian 

взвешивать (balance, hold beyond with, poise, scale). (various references)

Scottish

meidhich (va. weigh with scales or a balance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vagati, težiti (aspire, gravitate, long, seek for, strive, trend), odmeriti (apportion, gauge, measure, mete, weigh out), odmeravati (heft), izvagati, izmeriti (gauge, measure, take). (various references)

Spanish

pesar (balance, enter, grief, load, perpend, press, regret, scale, sit, sorrow, turn the scales, weigh on, weigh out, weigh up), ponderar (consider, ponder, praise highly, weigh up, weight). (various references)

Sranan

wegi (weight). (various references)

Swazi

kú-kála (to weigh). (various references)

Swedish

väga (go, heft, ride, scale), tynga (be heavy, burden, load, press, weigh down, weight, weight with). (various references)

Turkish

yol (angle, approach, Avenue, channel, cutting, expedient, gateway, handle, itinerary, journey, meatus, outlet, path, road, route, tack, thoroughfare, trail, via, walk, way, wise), yük olmak (be a charge on smb., bear hard on, cumber, impose, load, tax, weigh on, weigh upon), tartmak (balance, debate with oneself, deliberate, Gage, gauge, measure, scale, weigh out), tartma (weighing), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge), gelmek (arrive, attain, carry over, come, come to, come up to, fall on, get, go on, go to scale at, pull, put in, roll up, scale in, scale out, set, stem, turn the scale at), düşünüp taşınmak (calculate, chew, cogitate, cogitate over, debate, debate with oneself, look round, mull over, ponder, ponder over, pore, reason, reason out, reflect, revolve, ruminate, think over, turn over, turn over in one's mind, worry out), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh down, whelm, whip), basmak (affix, attack suddenly, break into, catch, come on, come upon, flood, flow, foray, impress, imprint, irrupt, jam, letter, press, print, publish, raid, sink, spit, spit out, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread, tread on, utter), önemi olmak (carry weight with, count, import, matter), ölçüp tartmak (plan carefully, ponder). (various references)

Turkmen 

semek (hang out, spread out). (various references)

Ukrainian

важити (ponderate, scale, weight), обдумувати (balance, cogitate, debate, ponder), зважувати (balance, heft, scale, think over), порівнювати (balance, collate, compare, confront, contrast), поважати (esteem, fear, regard, respect). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dọc đường. (various references)

Welsh

pwyso (lean, press, rely, rest), mantoli (balance, turn scale), cloriannu (balance). (various references)

Yucatec

p'isik (measure). (various references)

appendere, circumlegentes, consulto, depresserant, deprime, deprimebant, deprimentes, deprimentium, deprimeris, exactus, examinabantur, examinans, examinare, examinasti, examinatur, exegissem, exegit, exigaris, exigatis, exigere, exiges, expendas, expendet, expendi, expensarum, expensum, lecta, lectae, lectis, lecto, lectum, lecturi, lectus, legant, legatur, lege, legebant, legebantur, legebat, legebatur, legens, legentem, legentes, legentibus, legentium, legere, legeris, legerit, legerunt, leges, legesque, leget, legetque, legi, legis, legissent, legisset, legisti, legistis, legit, legite, legitque, legitur, pendere, pensare, pensitare, pondera, ponderabat, ponderabitur, ponderans, ponderatis, ponderatum, ponderavit, praeponderent, seceleg, trutino. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "weigh": weighable, weighed, weigher, weighers, weighing, weighman, weighmen, weighs, weight, weighted, weighter, weighters, weightier, weightiest, weightily, weightiness, weightinesses, weighting, weightless, weightlessly, weightlessness, weightlessnesses, weightlifter, weightlifters, weightlifting, weightliftings, weights, weighty. (additional references)

Words ending with "weigh": aweigh, outweigh, overweigh, reweigh. (additional references)

Words containing "weigh": bantamweight, bantamweights, counterweight, counterweighted, counterweighting, counterweights, cruiserweight, cruiserweights, deadweight, deadweights, featherweight, featherweights, flyweight, flyweights, heavyweight, heavyweights, hundredweight, hundredweights, lightweight, lightweights, makeweight, makeweights, middleweight, middleweights, outweighed, outweighing, outweighs, overweighed, overweighing, overweighs, overweight, overweighted, overweighting, overweights, paperweight, paperweights, pennyweight, pennyweights, reweighed, reweighing, reweighs, superheavyweight, superheavyweights, ultralightweight, underweight, underweights, unweight, unweighted, unweighting, unweights, welterweight. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Weigh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beigh, deigh, eeurgh, Eugh, ewig, ewige, ewy, feigh, reigh, waigh, Weah, weeh, weesh, Weghe, weich, weig, weige, weigth, weih, weith, whigh, wiegh, wigh, Wiyogo, Yeugh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: whig.

-2 letters: ghi, gie, hew, hie, wig.

-3 letters: eh, he, hi, we.

+1 letter: aweigh, hewing, weighs, weight, whinge.

+2 letters: chewing, reweigh, shewing, weighed, weigher, weights, weighty, whinged, whinges.

+3 letters: outweigh, reweighs, shrewing, unweight, weighers, weighing, weighman, weighmen, weighted, weighter, welching, welshing, wenching, wheeling, wheeping, wheezing, whelming, whelping, whetting.

+4 letters: behowling, eschewing, flyweight, growthier, heehawing, nightwear, outweighs, overweigh, rechewing, reshowing, rewashing, reweighed, showering, tightwire, unweights, weeknight, weighable, weighters, weightier, weightily, weighting, wheedling, wheelings, wheepling, wherrying, whingeing, whitening, whitewing, withering, wreathing, wrenching, wuthering.