What's the difference between evaluate and weigh?

Evaluate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (3) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
  • (4) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (5) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
  • (6) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (7) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
  • (8) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
  • (9) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (10) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
  • (11) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (12) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (13) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (14) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
  • (16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
  • (17) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (18) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (19) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
  • (20) How useful is the technique for evaluating therapeutic efficacy?

Weigh


Definition:

  • (n.) A corruption of Way, used only in the phrase under weigh.
  • (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of.
  • (v. t.) To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
  • (v. i.) To have weight; to be heavy.
  • (v. i.) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
  • (v. i.) To bear heavily; to press hard.
  • (v. i.) To judge; to estimate.
  • (n.) A certain quantity estimated by weight; an English measure of weight. See Wey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (2) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
  • (3) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
  • (4) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (5) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
  • (6) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
  • (7) Among infants weighing less than 2 500 g, perinatal mortality was higher in the local hospital than in the university hospital, the higher mortality being due to the higher rate of stillborn infants.
  • (8) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
  • (9) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (10) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
  • (11) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
  • (12) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
  • (13) The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects.
  • (14) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
  • (15) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
  • (16) The improved survival of the infants weighing 1,500 gm or less when compared with infants of similar weights in preceding years is attributed to more intensive perinatal management of these mothers and their very-low-birth-weight infants.
  • (17) We therefore developed a food frequency questionnaire and tested it against a 4-day weighed food record in 54 Caucasian women, between 29 and 72 years of age.
  • (18) These advantages must be weighed against the finding that overheating was more common and Pseudomonas was more commonly isolated from the infants.
  • (19) The experiment was performed using two young male camels which weighed 24 and 36 kg respectively at birth.
  • (20) Fears over China's financial system also weighed ( see this post for the background ).