weigh: Meaning and Definition of

weigh

1. to have weight or a specified amount of weight: to weigh less; to weigh a ton.
2. to have importance, moment, or consequence: Your recommendation weighs heavily in his favor.
3. to bear down as a weight or burden (usually fol. by on or upon): Responsibility weighed upon her.
4. to consider carefully or judicially: to weigh well before deciding.
5. (of a ship) to raise the anchor and get under way: The ship weighed early and escaped in the fog.
6. to heave up a ship's anchor in preparation for getting under way.
7. snow and ice weighing down the trees.
1. to cause to become bowed under a weight:snow and ice weighing down the trees.
2. to lower the spirits of; burden; depress:This predicament weighs me down.
8. He weighed in at 170 pounds.
1. (of a boxer or wrestler) to be weighed by a medical examiner on the day of a bout.
2. to be of the weight determined by such a weighing:He weighed in at 170 pounds.
3. (of a jockey) to be weighed with the saddle and weights after a race.
9. See(def. 26).
10. (of a jockey)
1. to be weighed with the saddle and weights before a race.
2. to be of the weight determined by such a weighing.

weigh

1. in motion; under way.