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WEIGH

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Show consideration for; take into account

Example:

The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient

Synonyms:

consider; count; weigh

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They weigh their earnings this year

Derivation:

weighing (careful consideration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have weight; have import, carry weight

Example:

It does not matter much

Synonyms:

count; matter; weigh

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "weigh" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weigh"):

press; weigh (to be oppressive or burdensome)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

To be oppressive or burdensome

Example:

Something pressed on his mind

Synonyms:

press; weigh

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "weigh" is one way to...):

count; matter; weigh (have weight; have import, carry weight)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Determine the weight of

Example:

The butcher weighed the chicken

Synonyms:

librate; weigh

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "weigh" is one way to...):

measure; quantify (express as a number or measure or quantity)

Verb group:

weigh (have a certain weight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weigh"):

heft (test the weight of something by lifting it)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

weigher (an official who weighs and records the weight)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Have a certain weight

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "weigh" is one way to...):

measure (have certain dimensions)

Verb group:

librate; weigh (determine the weight of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Let us weigh the one against the other.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are many ships weighing anchor at the moment in your so great Port of London.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The stranger walked heavily and with a measured stride, while the English knight advanced as briskly as though there was no iron shell to weigh down the freedom of his limbs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For example, that means losing 10 to 20 pounds if you weigh 200 pounds.

(Obesity, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

And these dreams weigh on your spirits now, Jane, when I am close to you?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It were, said the cook; it were when we weighed anchor.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My heart was full, and I did not answer him, but as I proceeded, I weighed the various arguments that he had used and determined at least to listen to his tale.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mrs. Weston, your argument weighs most with me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

An infant weighing 5-1/2 pounds or less at birth.

(Low birth weight, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

One nanogram weighs a billion times less than one gram, and almost a trillion-times less than a pound.

(Nanogram, NCI Dictionary)