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weigh
English
Alternative forms
- waye, weye (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English weghen, we?en, from Old English wegan, from Proto-Germanic *wegan? (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wé??eti, from *we??- (“to bring, transport”). Cognate with Scots wey or weich, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?, IPA(key): /we?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophones: way, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Verb
weigh (third-person singular simple present weighs, present participle weighing, simple past and past participle weighed)
- (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.
- (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
- (transitive) To consider a subject. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To have a certain weight.
- (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
- (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
Usage notes
- In commercial and everyday use, the term "weight" is usually used to mean mass, and the verb "to weigh" means "to determine the mass of" or "to have a mass of".
Derived terms
Related terms
- weight
Translations
weigh From the web:
- what weight should i be
- what weight is considered obese
- what weighs 100 grams
- what weight class is floyd mayweather
- what weighs a gram
- what weighs 500 grams
- what weight class is israel adesanya
- what weighs a ton
prepense
English
Etymology
Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???p?ns/
Adjective
prepense
- Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
See also
- malice prepense
Verb
prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.
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