0 past simple and past participle of weigh --
1 to have a heaviness of a stated amount, or to measure the heaviness of an object: --
2 (of something such as a fact or an event) to have an influence or be important: --
3 to carefully consider, especially by comparing facts or possibilities, in order to make a decision: --
4 to lift the anchor (= a heavy metal object) of a ship from under the water so that it can move freely --
The contents of the litterbags were then gently brushed clean, and weighed.
He had weighed the brains of 29 normal men and found an average figure of 1323 grams.
There might be other values than welfare but the gains or losses in these values can be weighed against gains and losses in welfare.
Organs and tracts were removed from infected and control mice at 15, 40 and 100 days post-injection, weighed and processed for macroscopical and histological analyses.
But only to a point: the balance is heavily weighed in favour of illustrations and visual pleasure, often at the expense of descriptions.
At each visit, children were weighed and details of their health, diet and home environment were recorded.
The media also weighed in, besides providing news and analysis.
The labour requirements of the sugar companies had to be weighed against the political realities of mass unemployment and the rise of popular nationalism.
