weigh

Meaning

1. To determine the weight of an object.
2. Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
3. To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
4. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
5. To consider a subject.
6. To have a certain weight.
7. To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
8. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
9. To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
10. To weigh anchor.
11. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
12. (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

measure

consider

weighing scale

disanchor

ineasure

eat on

Roman balance

ponderate

dosis

raise anchor

dead milling

aim for

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/weɪ/

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.