verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weighed anchor (=lifted the anchor)
▪ The next morning, they weighed anchor and began to move south again.
weighs...pounds
▪ Moira weighs about 130 pounds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing about 250 g were fasted for 24 hours and killed by decapitation.
▪ One huge stone still stands at Lochmaben: seven feet-ten inches high, weighing about ten tons.
▪ At birth it weighed about 40 kilos.
▪ Each weighed about 54 grains of gold.
also
▪ It also weighs in as the most comfortable waterproof jacket I've worn.
▪ Lower prices for Treasury bonds also weighed on stock prices somewhat, traders said.
▪ Heavily-weighted oil stocks also weighed the market down as investors booked profits after the sector's recent strong run.
as
▪ These weighed as heavily in the social balance as the areas of social tension like Galicia.
▪ Not bad for a car which weighs as much as a Range Rover.
▪ I slumped to the ground, despair weighing as heavily as the load on my back.
carefully
▪ He is anxious that all demands for screening from pressure groups - of doctors or patients - should be weighed carefully.
▪ Since creation and innovation mean divergence from the group, every word must be carefully weighed.
▪ These were considerations which Fru Møller weighed carefully.
▪ This is not the foolishly bold prediction of a diehard supporter, but the carefully weighed assessment of facts.
▪ Every statement is based on observation; every conclusion is supported by evidence; every judgement is carefully weighed.
▪ Perhaps, although we carefully weighed the pros and cons.
▪ After carefully weighing the alternatives, we opted for a system that is simple to use and easy to understand.
down
▪ Renwick, weighed down with nickels and dimes, began his calls.
▪ I glanced over at Kip again and saw him wince when he weighed down on the pedal with his hurt foot.
▪ She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant, it was almost pleasant.
▪ She collects stones to weigh down her basket, but as there is no hurry she falls asleep on the bank.
▪ She stayed in bed, weighed down by what she called grief.
▪ Their pace is heavy, as if weighed down by the attention and suspense that follows their every step.
▪ She was weighed down by it.
▪ The rest were weighed down by an accumulation of debts incurred during the wars and natural disasters of the preceding century.
heavily
▪ The shame, the guilt, the remorse were weighing heavily upon the parents.
▪ The family matter weighs heavily on him, and he is probably sensing high levels of stress and embarrassment.
▪ External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries.
▪ Dear Parents: The responsibility for the boys is weighing heavily on us these days.
▪ Time was weighing heavily upon him.
▪ But there were other factors that weighed heavily in the decision to retire the Rotterdam.
▪ Mozart was no doubt a good Catholic, but his religion did not weigh heavily upon him.
▪ Racing shoes are designed specifically for élite runners, for whom marginal differences weigh heavily.
in
▪ I weighed in on Monday, got blood pressured, then drove through blinding rain into the Guildford one-way system.
▪ September Vogue weighs in with 734 pages of heavy print, Bazaar with 488.
▪ The largest Jilin stone weighed in at well over one thousand kilograms.
▪ He thought suddenly of Antony Royd, weighed in at four pounds, doing eleven lengths in four minutes.
▪ Elated by their first opportunity to serve as Guardians of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, they weighed in with equally reactionary vigor.
▪ With the B1-R retailing at £550 and the cab weighing in at £460, that leaves us £500 for a bass.
▪ The Police Officers Association will weigh in heavily on behalf of the rights of its members.
less
▪ There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease.
▪ If it weighs less, the object will sink.
▪ Neutrinos are thought to weigh less than 20 eV, if anything.
▪ An average light box is roughly twenty-four inches by thirteen inches and weighs less than ten pounds.
▪ Neither of us can remember just why this process took four hands when she weighed less than seven pounds.
▪ Most of Brooks's mobots weighed less than ten pounds.
▪ It weighs less than 12, 500 pounds, and its ride is likened to that of a glider.
more
▪ The size of the neat, compact body is deceptive: the Devon can weigh more than a Hereford or Beef Shorthorn.
▪ She must have weighed more than three hundred pounds.
▪ The debt burden is weighing more and more heavily on the weakest economies.
▪ None of them weighed more than 100 pounds or stood much more than 5 feet tall.
▪ They didn't weigh more than a few ounces.
▪ He was about six feet tall and rail-thin; he could not have weighed more than one hundred and forty pounds.
▪ Some bags are available with cotton or polycotton linings and these are more comfortable but they weigh more.
▪ At all ages, males weigh more than females; this is also true for each part, or cut.
only
▪ This over-the-head version weighed only 14 oz and went into a neat little stuff sack.
▪ The T53-L-l l gas-turbine engine develops eleven hundred horsepower yet weighs only five hundred pounds.
▪ Diplodocus was remarkably lithe, weighing only 10 tons in spite of being some 28 metres long.
▪ The handset looks like an elongated remote control and weighs only 1 pound.
▪ In all, the Buckau weighed only 20 tonnes more after her conversion.
▪ Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
▪ Yield is best from ducks that weigh at least 4 pounds, although many mallards weigh only 2 to 3 pounds.
▪ Herrera, who weighed only 137, was wobbled a few more times in the fight but never again left his feet.
over
▪ Hafpor is a big man, nearly two metres tall and weighing over 100 kilograms.
▪ We are the only fleas weighing over a hundred pounds.
▪ Each truck has to carry 26 of them, together weighing over a ton.
▪ He was nearly five feet high, and though badly undernourished weighed over a hundred pounds.
▪ When I tell you she weighed over a ton, you can see why we were a bit nervous.
▪ The whole plate, with its glass window, feels substantial - it weighs over 260 grams.
▪ The number of lorries weighing over 10 tonnes unladen shot up by 230 percent.
▪ This bomber and its cargo probably weighs over a hundred tons.
up
▪ A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor.
▪ Interestingly, 5-foot-6-inch women now can weigh up to 155 pounds, but in 1942 their limit was 140.
▪ The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
▪ Thinker - producing carefully considered ideas and weighing up and improving ideas from other people.
▪ When you are weighing up which lender to go to for your loan, you ignore their differences at your peril.
▪ On Monday Clark's board met to weigh up three rival offers, all believed to be about £150 million.
▪ In calmer times I try to analyse, weighing up the pros and cons.
▪ In the final analysis, organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ He could see her deciding whether to agree or disagree, he could see her weigh the advantages and the possible disadvantages.
▪ She weighed the advantages of telling him about Nuadu and the terrible crimson mask against the matter of his allegiance.
▪ In making these decisions, people will have to weigh up the relative advantages and disadvantages of the various alternative assets.
balance
▪ All current affairs in the whole world of lamentable war and strife needed to be weighed in this balance.
▪ Any potential for increased farm production has to be weighed in the balance against stubborn facts.
▪ One other piece of evidence seems to weigh in the balance on the side of Fisher-the phenomenon of copying.
benefit
▪ In the final analysis, organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved.
▪ Individual companies will have to weigh the risks and benefits carefully before deciding whether to participate.
▪ He was weighing the benefits of having one when he felt some one in the room with him.
con
▪ The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
▪ Perhaps, although we carefully weighed the pros and cons.
▪ Rab weighed the cons and heard the rats.
▪ During the past few months, we have again weighed upthe pros and cons of reapplying now, or waiting for the time being.
costs
▪ Some means of weighing up the costs and benefits of such an approach is therefore capable of being employed.
▪ Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia also refused to require the government to weigh financial costs against health benefits.
▪ The potential benefits must be weighed up against the costs involved and the risk of failure.
▪ At least there are benefits to be weighed against the costs!
evidence
▪ His style is lucid and he emerges as an honest broker who judiciously weighs the historical evidence.
▪ After the weighing the evidence, the panel is expected to give its opinion Thursday.
▪ Our task is to weigh the evidence objectively and impartially.
▪ They had listened intently and weighed the evidence for three days before they made their decision.
▪ Final microbiological diagnosis was made by two infectious disease specialists who weighed all available clinical evidence.
▪ Your impartiality in weighing the evidence they have presented to you is the ornament of our system at law.
▪ This is, in one sense, unobjectionable and Kemp rightly weighs the evidence for influence circumspectly.
▪ Then weigh the evidence which confronts you and decide what help you need, if any.
factor
▪ Food is a great indicator of perceived social status, and innovations will have to weigh up these factors with care.
foot
▪ The creature itself grows to a hundred feet and weighs a hundred and sixty tons.
▪ At the base, the thickness of a typical column might be such that a foot length weighs a thousand pounds.
▪ It was fair-sized, four feet long and weighing twenty-five to thirty pounds.
▪ Goldie Preston Tracy Richmond stood 6-#foot-4, weighed 350 pounds and wore a man's size 14 shoe.
▪ He was a handsome man, standing five feet nine inches and weighing twelve stone.
▪ He was like 6 foot 3, weighed like 300 pounds and had a big beard.
hundred
▪ She must have weighed more than three hundred pounds.
▪ The T53-L-l l gas-turbine engine develops eleven hundred horsepower yet weighs only five hundred pounds.
▪ I weighed less than a hundred pounds.
▪ The three of them together could have easily weighed nine hundred pounds.
▪ The Cardwell, all by itself, according to Bill Stultz, weighed a hundred pounds.
▪ He was about six feet tall and rail-thin; he could not have weighed more than one hundred and forty pounds.
▪ He weighed less than a hundred pounds; you could see he was just barely holding on.
▪ Mrs Lambertson weighed under one hundred pounds, and the murders of the defenseless couple sparked outrage throughout the state.
inches
▪ One huge stone still stands at Lochmaben: seven feet-ten inches high, weighing about ten tons.
▪ An average light box is roughly twenty-four inches by thirteen inches and weighs less than ten pounds.
▪ He was a handsome man, standing five feet nine inches and weighing twelve stone.
▪ The man was described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 275 pounds, with a multi-day beard growth.
▪ He is about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs about 175 pounds.
▪ Amber is described as 4 feet, 7 inches tall, weighing about 80 pounds.
▪ Chester Shirley described his wife as about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing 185 pounds.
▪ The other hostage, Roswell, is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 135 to 140 pounds.
mind
▪ But until then, that second job weighs on their mind and their time every day when they arrive at work.
possibility
▪ I weigh possibilities till I am afraid of the strength of my own health and of their evident health.
▪ Blue gets back to his room on Orange Street, lies down on his bed, and tries to weigh the possibilities.
▪ He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something, as opposed to the accused walking free.
pound
▪ It was fair-sized, four feet long and weighing twenty-five to thirty pounds.
▪ Since then it has banned the public from placing stamped parcels weighing more than 1 pound in mail collection boxes.
▪ He now weighs twenty nine pounds ... week old lambs would normally turn the scales at around fifteen pounds.
▪ Heather was the smallest baby of all, weighing in under six pounds.
▪ Among the objects salvaged were gold dishes, weighing a pound each, with the image of the emperor on them.
▪ It weighs seven pounds twelve ounces, is ten and a half inches long and nine inches wide.
▪ Chilperic also showed Gregory a gold salver covered with gems, weighing fifty pounds.
▪ He thought suddenly of Antony Royd, weighed in at four pounds, doing eleven lengths in four minutes.
pounds
▪ It was fair-sized, four feet long and weighing twenty-five to thirty pounds.
▪ Molly had only one problem: she weighed 380 pounds.
▪ He now weighs twenty nine pounds ... week old lambs would normally turn the scales at around fifteen pounds.
▪ On the lower floors of Worldwide Plaza, the concrete would weigh about 70 pounds per square foot.
▪ It weighs seven pounds twelve ounces, is ten and a half inches long and nine inches wide.
▪ Wasson said a steel truss weighing about 2 million pounds will be raised atop the northeast and southeast towers on May 20-21.
▪ Chilperic also showed Gregory a gold salver covered with gems, weighing fifty pounds.
▪ Her backpack must have weighed twenty pounds.
price
▪ Lower prices for Treasury bonds also weighed on stock prices somewhat, traders said.
pro
▪ The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
▪ Perhaps, although we carefully weighed the pros and cons.
▪ In calmer times I try to analyse, weighing up the pros and cons.
▪ But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons.
▪ Before initiating an incident, you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time.
▪ During the past few months, we have again weighed upthe pros and cons of reapplying now, or waiting for the time being.
▪ It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation.
▪ If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously.
risk
▪ Individual companies will have to weigh the risks and benefits carefully before deciding whether to participate.
▪ These must be weighed against the risks in standing on the sidelines.
▪ The danger of inflation, after all, must be weighed against other risks, such as lost growth and jobs.
▪ We weigh up the risks and possible repercussions of each and every situation.
▪ He weighed the risks of taking it against its usefulness in covering distance faster than a pair of legs.
scale
▪ A Weighty Decision Tired of your scales groaning when you weigh yourself every morning?
stone
▪ And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.
▪ I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line: before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten.
▪ But the big two, weighing 35 stones between them, reckon he's got no chance.
▪ I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line: before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten.
▪ The lifeguard, who weighs fifteen stone and does not shave beneath her arms, yells at me to stop.
▪ A Prague newspaper said yesterday that he weighed 36 stone.
▪ The bad news is he weighs just under 30 stone at press time, down fourteen stone from his previous weight.
▪ Suitcases that had once been quite light now felt as if they were weighed down with stones.
ton
▪ It was an extraordinary 32 metres long, weighing possibly up to 100 tons.
▪ Most of the sculptures there weigh about half a ton.
▪ Each truck has to carry 26 of them, together weighing over a ton.
▪ The thing weighed a black ton.
▪ It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often.
▪ Some one mentioned to me that 18 to 24 inches of snow on a driveway 10 by 40 feet weighs a ton.
▪ Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.
▪ It is 10' in diameter and weighs some 40 tons.
tonne
▪ Just the tongue from such a mouth can weigh up to 4.22 tonnes.
▪ The new armour is heavy, and a Challenger weighs a massive 60 tonnes.
▪ Trains up to 800m long weighing 1600 tonnes have already been run.
▪ The new car body weighed 9.55 tonnes, and the unladen weight of the complete car proved to be 17.29 tonnes.
▪ The number of lorries weighing over 10 tonnes unladen shot up by 230 percent.
▪ Drivers with lorries weighing above 7.5 tonnes face a five mile detour around the bridge.
▪ In all, the Buckau weighed only 20 tonnes more after her conversion.
tons
▪ It was an extraordinary 32 metres long, weighing possibly up to 100 tons.
▪ It filled a 30-foot by 50-foot room and weighed 30 tons.
▪ Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.
▪ Locomotives weighing thirty or forty tons caused havoc where wheel met rail, iron rails sometimes needing replacement every two years.
▪ It is 10' in diameter and weighs some 40 tons.
▪ The whale was about thirty feet long, half the length of Hsu Fu, and would have weighed about seven tons.
▪ They weighed 57 tons each, tare.
▪ Each barge weighs about 850 tons and carries about eleven hundred tons of steel.
word
▪ He began to weigh his words with great care, struggling to express himself as economically and clearly as possible.
■ VERB
continue
▪ However, continue to weigh each day if at all possible.
▪ External debt continues to weigh heavily upon these countries.
▪ We do strongly recommend that you continue to weigh yourself regularly.
▪ When your programme is fully finished, continue to weigh each day for a few months.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weigh a ton
▪ That piano weighs a ton. You'll need four men to lift it.
▪ What on earth have you got in this suitcase? It weighs a ton!
▪ Your bag weighs a ton!
▪ Each one seemed to weigh a ton at least to four small eight-year-olds.
▪ I expect the cab weighs a ton, but the whole kit is still very portable, size-wise.
▪ It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often.
▪ Some one mentioned to me that 18 to 24 inches of snow on a driveway 10 by 40 feet weighs a ton.
▪ That thing over there seems to weigh a ton.
▪ The shire horses are direct descendants of the great war horses, and each one weighs a ton.
▪ They were full of books and weighed a ton.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Weigh all the ingredients carefully before mixing them together.
▪ a special machine that weighs each truck and its cargo
▪ Allen is a fast runner, despite weighing 325 pounds and having a chest like a barrel.
▪ At all ages, men weigh more than women.
▪ Dieters shouldn't weigh themselves too often.
▪ Each whale was about 40 feet long and weighed 45 tonnes.
▪ Every time I weigh myself I seem to have got heavier!
▪ How much do you weigh, Diane?
▪ How much does this parcel weigh?
▪ I've never seen anything like it -- some of those cabbages must have weighed 8 pounds at least.
▪ I weigh eight stone now, exactly.
▪ I haven't had time to weigh all of my options.
▪ It'll take two of us to get it out of the car, it weighs a ton!
▪ Our portable computer weighs 7 pounds and costs about $4000
▪ She weighs about 58 kg.
▪ She didn't tell me how much the baby weighed.
▪ Some of their players weigh over 300 pounds.
▪ The blue whale is a vast creature, weighing up to 30 tons.
▪ What do you weigh -- a hundred kilos or so?
▪ You have to weigh the sugar exactly when you make wine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both weighed exactly, the same: 475 pounds.
▪ It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often.
▪ She collects stones to weigh down her basket, but as there is no hurry she falls asleep on the bank.
▪ The Boston Globe nurse weighed each woman and measured her thighs before and after the experiment.
▪ The stones seemed not to weigh the room towards the earth but to be ready to lift it into the sky.
▪ They would probably weigh it and work out the value that way.
▪ Wasson said a steel truss weighing about 2 million pounds will be raised atop the northeast and southeast towers on May 20-21.
▪ What weighs on the other side of the scale?