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# weigh

«weigh» in Mova's school dictionary: **to find how heavy something is, using scales** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (weigh, weighs, weighed, weighing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To weigh is to find how heavy something is, using scales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#m1)

2) To weigh is to be that heavy: «The bag weighs 5 pounds». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#m2)

3) To weigh up is to think carefully about choices before you decide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#m3)

4) To weigh anchor is to lift a ship's anchor from the sea bed so the ship can set sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

tells a weight in pounds or kilograms; weights are added or compared; in science, objects are weighed on scales or balances; phrases «weigh up», «weigh down», «weigh in»

### examples

- The strawberries weighed 35 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x1)
- Each box weighs 4 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x2)
- How much do they weigh together? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x3)
- Her dad's strawberries weighed 12 pounds more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x4)
- The nurse weighed the baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x5)
- Weigh the flour on the kitchen scales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x6)
- My backpack weighs too much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x7)
- She weighed up the two choices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x8)
- A blue whale weighs more than a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x9)
- The wet coat weighed him down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x10)
- No sooner were they on board than they weighed anchor and set sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/#x11)

### note

Marks a weight, in pounds or kilograms. «each weighs N» × count gives total weight. Trap: weight is not the number of things. «Weigh» sounds like «way». The noun is «weight».

### In the corpora

- [The smallest shrews weigh about as much as a paperclip or two, while an elephant weighs several tonnes, millions of times more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/11/)
- [The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/12/)
- [The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/6/)
- [Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/266-the-long-necked-giants-sauropods/6/)
- [In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «weigh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weigh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.