(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 ).
Weighty
Definition:
(superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.
(superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
(superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is appropriate that AIDS be responded to as a crisis, but we also have a weighty, preexisting set of long-standing and equally lethal health and social ills.
(2) Weighty stuff, but critics hailed the show as the neurotic standup’s best in years.
(3) They imply that it is a matter of weighty regret that things have now reached a pass where their only conscionable option is to declare "thus far and no further".
(4) 4S, 5S, AND 18S + 28S RNA from the newt Taricha granulosa granulosa were iodinated in vitro with carrier-free 125I and hybridized to the denatured chromosomes of Taricha granulosa and Batrachoseps weighti.
(5) We'll be here until then and beyond, sharing every rumour nugget, insightful news line and weighty analysis we can muster.
(6) Little ones might freak out a bit at the wax characters and the gloomy dark but this is a fun way to bring a fairly weighty school text to life.
(7) In contrast, D changed from left weightiness to symmetry, coinciding with improvement but not with deterioration, With reference to the latter findings we discuss the possibility of a particular mode of cerebral lateralization predisposing to endogenous depression.
(8) The DPA is a weighty US drug policy reform NGO that can boast tycoons such as George Soros and Richard Branson and celebrities including Sting on its board of directors.
(9) Then there were the imported dramas broadcast because they were weighty, such as 1984's Heimat , an enthralling dramatisation of ordinary lives in 20th-century Germany.
(10) At the time of his resignation he had far more weighty matters filling his in-tray than the NRB case, not least a probe into alleged corruption among some of Boris Yeltsin's close relatives.
(11) Brennan bridles at that, saying it would be "a very weighty decision in terms of declassifying that report."
(12) In the Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde the last-mentioned aspect appears to have been very weighty, especially in the beginning.
(13) Weighty, expensive impact reports sit hidden deep within websites (or worse, annual reports), while the public remains oblivious to what happens to donations.
(14) They're running almost entirely on biscuits and cans of Red Bull, kept awake by a mix of jokes, weighty debate, and general good humour.
(15) It's an extra nerdy and intelligent version too, with tactical jedi Jonathan Wilson and his young apprentic Zonal Marking's Michael Cox there to provide the yuks and giggles as myself and James Richardson analyse the weighty football issues of the day to within an inch of their lives.
(16) The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic party; and the lion of the US Senate – a man whose name graces nearly one thousand laws, and who penned more than 300 himself.
(17) It was the world of John Smith, razor-sharp debating, forensic examination of weighty issues and Gaitskellite intrigues.
(18) A comparison between the activity of the two hands yielded a pronounced left-weightiness of object-focused, continuous body-focused and discrete body-focused movements in contrast to findings on normal persons.
(19) The chancellor demanded that officials develop weighty evidence about whether or not the new 50p rate was working.
(20) The science report is the first of three major IPCC reports this year; similarly weighty analysis of the impact and possible solutions will follow in April and May respectively.