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verb
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(transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
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(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.
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(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.
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(transitive) To consider a subject.
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 251b-c.
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: For anyone can in with the quick objection that it is impossible for what is many to be one
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(intransitive) To have a certain weight.
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
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(context, nautical, transitive) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
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noun (wikipedia, weight)
- The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
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(weightlifting): A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
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(physics) mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.)
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(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
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(topology) the smallest cardinality of a base
:Compare to mass.
verb
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(transitive) To add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.
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(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
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(context, transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
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(transitive) To bias something; to slant.
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(context, transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
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noun
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An old English measure of weight containing 224 pounds; equivalent to 2 hundredweight.
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Quotations
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c. 1376: Than though I hadde this wouke ywonne a weye of Essex cheese. — William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, Version B, Passus 5, Line 91.
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1882: Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 208.
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????: A wey is 6 tods, or 182 pounds, of wool; a load, or five quarters, of wheat, 40 bushels of salt, each weighing 56 pounds; 32 cloves of cheese, each weighing seven pounds; 48 bushels of oats and barley; and from two cwt. to three cwt. of butter. — Simmonds.
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