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(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.

He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.

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

You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

(transitive) To consider a subject.

- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 251b-c.
- : For anyone can in with the quick objection that it is impossible for what is many to be one
  1. (intransitive) To have a certain weight.
  I weigh ten and a half stone.
  1. (context, nautical, transitive) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.

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Etymology: Old English wegan, from Germanic. Cognate with Scots wey, Dutch wegen, German bewegen.

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