weigh
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 →
2) To weigh is to be that heavy: «The bag weighs 5 pounds». tree →
3) To weigh up is to think carefully about choices before you decide. tree →
4) To weigh anchor is to lift a ship's anchor from the sea bed so the ship can set sail. tree →
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 →
- Each box weighs 4 pounds. tree →
- How much do they weigh together? tree →
- Her dad's strawberries weighed 12 pounds more. tree →
- The nurse weighed the baby. tree →
- Weigh the flour on the kitchen scales. tree →
- My backpack weighs too much. tree →
- She weighed up the two choices. tree →
- A blue whale weighs more than a bus. tree →
- The wet coat weighed him down. tree →
- No sooner were they on board than they weighed anchor and set sail. tree →
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.
- The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.
- The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others.
- Argentinosaurus may have weighed 70 tonnes or more and been about 35 metres long; these sizes are estimates from a few huge bones.
- In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «weigh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.