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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
- (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
- (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
- (transitive) To consider a subject.
- (transitive) To have a certain weight.
- (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
- (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
Exempel
- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me [...] will even weigh.
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- 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.
- ‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh
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