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{
"term": "weigh",
"partOfSpeech": "verblinking verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "weigh",
"heSheIt": "weighs"
},
"pastSimple": "weighed",
"pastParticiple": "weighed",
"ingForm": "weighing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to have a particular weight",
"sensetop": "+ noun",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "How much do you weigh *(= how heavy are you)*?"
},
{
"text": "She weighs 60 kilos."
},
{
"text": "A healthy baby usually weighs 6 lbs or more."
},
{
"text": "The average male tiger weighs around 200 kg."
},
{
"text": "The diamond weighs 4.50 carats."
},
{
"text": "These cases **weigh a ton** *(= are very heavy)*."
}
],
"topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to measure how heavy somebody/something is, usually by using scales",
"sensetop": "weigh somebody/something/yourself",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He weighed himself on the bathroom scales."
},
{
"text": "Chicks were weighed and measured daily."
},
{
"text": "She weighed the stone in her hand *(= estimated how heavy it was by holding it)*."
}
],
"topics": ["Cooking and eating", "Maths and measurement"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to consider something carefully before making a decision",
"sensetop": "weigh something (up)weigh (up) something against something",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You must weigh up the pros and cons *(= consider the advantages and disadvantages of something)*.",
"contextForm": "weigh something (up)"
},
{
"text": "She weighed up all the evidence."
},
{
"text": "You'll need to weigh up all your options."
},
{
"text": "The jury weighed up the evidence carefully."
},
{
"text": "I weighed the benefits of the plan against the risks involved.",
"contextForm": "weigh (up) something against something"
},
{
"text": "We weighed the cost of advertising against the likely gains from increased business."
}
],
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["carefully", "up"],
"preposition": ["against"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to have an influence on somebody’s opinion or the result of something",
"sensetop": "weigh (with somebody) (against somebody/something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His past record **weighs heavily** against him."
},
{
"text": "The evidence weighs in her favour."
},
{
"text": "This fact weighed heavily in her favour."
},
{
"text": "His untidy appearance weighed against him."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["heavily", "strongly"],
"preposition": ["against", "in favour/favor of", "with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to lift an anchor out of the water and into a boat before sailing away",
"sensetop": "weigh anchor",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to choose your words carefully so that you say exactly what you mean",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He spoke slowly, weighing his words."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/weɪ/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weigh__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/weɪz/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weighs__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/weɪd/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weighed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈweɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weighing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/weɪ/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weigh__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/weɪz/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weighs__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/weɪd/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weighed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈweɪɪŋ/",
"audio": "we/weigh/weighing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English wegan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wegen ‘weigh’, German bewegen ‘move’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vehere ‘convey’. Early senses included ‘transport from one place to another’ and ‘raise up’."
}