Weigh
A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight of, that is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of the earth; to determine the heaviness, or quantity of matter of; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
To examine or test as if by the balance; to ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; to estimate deliberately and maturely; to balance.
To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
To have weight; to be heavy.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
To bear heavily; to press hard.
To judge; to estimate.
A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.
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Weigh Quotations
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant
Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Herodotus
How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
Thomas Kempis
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
George MacDonald
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Lord Chesterfield
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
William Wycherley
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Ben Jonson
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
Wallis Simpson
The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
Donella Meadows
I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.
Richard Simmons
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Albert Claude
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!
Sophia Bush
It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
Geena Davis
When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.
Kirstie Alley
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.
Katherine Heigl
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly
I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.
Michele Bachmann
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
Ahmed Ben Bella
I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh.
Emily Procter
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
Lee Westwood
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Weigh Translations
weigh in Danish is veje
weigh in Dutch is het gewicht bepalen, wegen, afwegen
weigh in Finnish is painaa
weigh in French is pesez, pesons, peser, pesent
weigh in Italian is pesare
weigh in Latin is consulto
weigh in Portuguese is pese
weigh in Spanish is balancear, pesar
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