Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of ascertaining weight.
- noun As much as is weighed at once: as, a weighing of beef.
- noun Same as
weighting .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
weigh , v. - a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed.
- See
Weigh-house . - any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
weigh . - noun
action of the verb to weigh - adjective that weighs
- adjective that
burdens
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun careful consideration
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Examples
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(30-3-3, 25 KO), only to escape with a draw in a November 2009 battle for the vacant IBF Lightweight belt, 33-year old Joan Guzman (30-0-1, 17 KO) showed up for his next shot at the title weighing a grotesque nine pounds over the weight limit.
BoxingScene.com 2010
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GRANGE: You know, Lou, one of the principles in the military in operations is what they call weighing the main effort.
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So in some of the Northern prisons they have what they call the weighing machine -- an infamous thing, and he who uses it commits as great a crime as the convict he punishes could have committed.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews Robert Green Ingersoll 1866
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Do you think Shyamalan is a good person for Summit to consider in weighing possible “Breaking Dawn” directors?
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS: MARCH 31ST | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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The danger here is that current events would indicate that the legal system is not seeing the distinction between a corporation as an institution with rights and an idividual with rights, which in weighing them equally, the corporate power is likely to come out on top simply by having more resources at its disposal by design.
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Of course, Europe has been no slouch in weighing in with some beauties, too.
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Starr said the judge will be able to instruct the jurors that they may consider Condit's non-responsiveness as a factor in weighing the credibility of his testimony.
The Crime Scene: Condit -- "We were just friends" Henri Cauvin 2010
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TheKitchenWitch -- Trust me, weighing is much easier than measuring.
Ratios and cherry almond cookies | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Starr said the judge will be able to instruct the jurors that they may consider Condit's non-responsiveness as a factor in weighing the credibility of his testimony.
Condit takes the stand in Levy case Henri Cauvin 2010
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In that process in weighing the factors for an injunction, it is well settled that judges are in fact considering policy questions, overtly, with everyone smiling.
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