weigh

weigh

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. (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.

   You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

4. (transitive) To consider a subject.
   • 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

5. (intransitive) To have a certain weight.

   I weigh ten and a half stone.

6. (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
7. (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
   • 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.

	pesare
	To determine the weight of an object.

bilanciare

il pesare

soppesare

vagliare

valutare

Altri significati:

(transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.

(transitive) To consider a subject.

to determine the weight of an object

(to) weigh

(transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.

(intransitive) To have a certain weight.

nautical: to raise an anchor

to have a certain weight

time (sound, gauge, estimate)

(intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.

to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object

(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.

(transitive) Often with "out

to consider a subject

to weigh out

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