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[ UK /wˈe‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. determine the weight of
    The butcher weighed the chicken
  2. have a certain weight
  3. have weight; have import, carry weight
    It does not matter much
  4. to be oppressive or burdensome
    Something pressed on his mind
    weigh heavily on the mind
  5. show consideration for; take into account
    The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient
    You must consider her age

How To Use weigh In A Sentence

  • What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
  • Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
  • It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
  • When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
  • The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
  • Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa, are characterised by morbid preoccupation with weight and shape and manifest through distorted or chaotic eating behaviour.
  • It's really weighing her down because she's not living up to her ideals any longer.
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