weighing

Verb

weigh (third-person singular simple present weighs, present participle weighing, simple past and past participle weighed)

1. (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
2. (transitive) 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. (figuratively, transitive) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
   • You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

   Synonyms:

   assess, price, value, appraise, apprise, apprize, esteem, evaluate, judge, prize

4. (figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
   • But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 444
5. (transitive) To consider a subject.
6. (copulative, intransitive, stative) To have a certain weight.
   • I weigh ten and a half stone.

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