weigh
Significado (English)
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- To determine the weight of an object.
- Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
- To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- (obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
- To consider a subject.
- To have a certain weight.
- To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- 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.
Synonyms
weighing scale
disanchor
ineasure
eat on
dosis
raise anchor
dead milling
aim for
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/weɪ/
Etimoloxía (English)
In summary
From Middle English weghen, weȝen, from Old English wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognates 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.
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