weigh
- IPA[wā]
美式
- find out how heavy (someone or something) is, typically using scales；have a specified weight
verb: weigh, 3rd person present: weighs, gerund or present participle: weighing, past tense: weighed, past participle: weighed
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. find out how heavy (someone or something) is, typically using scales weigh yourself on the day you begin the diet the vendor weighed the vegetables 同義詞
- ▪ have a specified weight when the twins were born they weighed ten pounds 同義詞
- ▪ balance in the hands to guess or as if to guess the weight of she picked up the brick and weighed it in her right hand
- 2. assess the nature or importance of, especially with a view to a decision or action the consequences of the move would need to be very carefully weighed they need to weigh benefit against risk 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ influence a decision or action; be considered important the evidence weighed heavily against him 同義詞
