Crossword clues for weighing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weighing \Weigh"ing\, a. & n. from Weigh, v.
Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed.
Weighing house. See Weigh-house.
Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.
Weigh \Weigh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weighed; p. pr. & vb. n. Weighing.] [OE. weien, weyen, weghen, AS. wegan to bear, move; akin to D. wegen to weigh, G. w["a]gen, wiegen, to weigh, bewegen to move, OHG. wegan, Icel. vega to move, carry, lift, weigh, Sw. v["a]ga to weigh, Dan. veie, Goth. gawigan to shake, L. vehere to carry, Skr. vah. ????. See Way, and cf. Wey.]
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor. ``Weigh the vessel up.''
--Cowper.-
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.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
--Dan. v. 27. To be equivalent to in weight; to counterbalance; to have the heaviness of. ``A body weighing divers ounces.''
--Boyle.-
To pay, allot, take, or give by weight.
They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
--Zech. xi. 12. -
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.
A young man not weighed in state affairs.
--Bacon.Had no better weighed The strength he was to cope with, or his own.
--Milton.Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.
--Hooker.In nice balance, truth with gold she weighs.
--Pope.Without sufficiently weighing his expressions.
--Sir W. Scott. -
To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. [Obs. or Archaic] ``I weigh not you.'' --Shak. All that she so dear did weigh. --Spenser. To weigh down.
To overbalance.
To oppress with weight; to overburden; to depress. ``To weigh thy spirits down.''
--Milton.
Wiktionary
1 that weighs 2 that burdens n. action of the verb ''to weigh'' v
(present participle of weigh English)
WordNet
n. careful consideration; "a little deliberation would have deterred them" [syn: deliberation, advisement]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "weighing".
Bunsen cells, it will be precipitated in an arborescent brittle form, ill adapted for weighing.
While weighing the various intangibles and unpredictables, Bade received a report from General Rast.
We saw her in fantastic dresses of silk and lace, edged with turquoise filigree, white gowns, and yellow hats, waving a fan of blue feathers, with expensive bangles of silver and gold weighing her arms, and necklaces of pearl and jade round her neck.
Bossuet, after weighing all historical considerations, felt obliged to acquit Beze of instigating the crime.
Each syndicate also shares a safety Bergen, weighing some 50 lbs, which contains a 24-hour ration pack, a radio, one change of clothes and a bivvy bag, enough for the YOs to survive if Dartmoor turns the climate on its head.
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Hold what ye list, fond believing Sprites, You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss, Which thinking on, yet weighing not Its thought, Unchecks Its clock-like laws.
We watched Sam walk off towards the weighing room and Tremayne remarked thoughtfully that he might try Cashless in an amateur race, and see what Nolan could do.
After lengthy weighing of the pros and cons, during which he became painfully aware that his seat of jurisdiction had been badly bruised beneath that confounded bell-pull, the jury at last managed to agree upon one point, that the corpse in question was the remains of one Gabriel Creach which everyone had known in the beginning.
Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in the midst of a great civil war, with unprecedented duties weighing upon him, was constantly in person debating the great features of his policy with the people.
It was a diplodocus, a form of dinosaur, weighing twenty tons and boasting a neck and head that were more than thirty feet long.
I asked Dreidel, he hesitated, weighing the personal and political consequences.
He bent his eyes on the ellipsoid as though weighing the matter in his mind.
And the exclamation was natural, for it was a southern whale, eighty feet long, a giant of the species, probably not weighing less than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds!
The superior cone, a mass of rock a thousand feet in height, and weighing thousands of millions of pounds, had been thrown down upon the island, making it tremble to its foundation.
If this amount of flour is fused with 80 grams of red lead, a button of lead weighing 22 grams will be formed, the other 16 grams being kept up by the oxygen of the red lead.