weighing
part of speech
verb (-ing form of weigh); noun (weighing, weighings)
meaning for a pupil
1) The -ing form of «weigh»: measuring how heavy something is: «She is weighing the flour.» tree →
2) Having a certain weight: «a parcel weighing 2 kilograms». tree →
3) Thinking carefully about something before deciding: «weighing up the choices». tree →
4) (noun) The act of measuring weight: «the weighing of the babies». tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths and science, weighing means using scales to find mass in grams and kilograms. In everyday life «weighing up» means comparing good and bad points before choosing. Phrases: «weighing scales», «weighing up», «weighing on my mind» (worrying me), «weighing in at» (sport).
examples
- We are weighing the apples on the kitchen scales. tree →
- A bag weighing 5 kg is too heavy for me. tree →
- She is weighing up whether to join the choir or the football club. tree →
- The test has been weighing on my mind all week. tree →
- The boxer was weighing in at 70 kilograms. tree →
- Weighing the ingredients carefully makes a better cake. tree →
- Hmm, I'm still weighing it up. tree →
- He passed over the Ghetto, and saw the old Jews bargaining with each other, and weighing out money in copper scales. tree →
note
From «weigh (weighs, weighed, weighing)». Noun «weight». Silent «gh»: say WAY-ing. Homophone trap: «weigh» sounds like «way». In maths, «weighing 300 g» gives the mass of each item; total mass = number × that mass.
In the corpora
- In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms.
- Antoine Lavoisier showed by careful weighing that matter is not lost when things burn or react; he also named oxygen and hydrogen.
Trees and pragmatics
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