weighing 的 3 个定义
- to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- to hold up or balance, as in the hand, in order to estimate the weight.
- to measure, separate, or apportion according to weight: to weigh out five pounds of sugar.
- (7)
- to have weight or a specified amount of weight: to weigh less; to weigh a ton.
- to have importance, moment, or consequence: Your recommendation weighs heavily in his favor.
- to bear down as a weight or burden: Responsibility weighed upon her.
- (5)
- weigh down, to cause to become bowed under a weight: snow and ice weighing down the trees.to lower the spirits of; burden; depress: This predicament weighs me down.
- weigh in, to be weighed by a medical examiner on the day of a bout.to be of the weight determined by such a weighing: He weighed in at 170 pounds. to be weighed with the saddle and weights after a race.Informal.to offer an opinion, advice, support, etc., especially in a forceful or authoritative way: The chairman weighed in with an idea for the fundraiser.
- weigh out, Horse Racing. to be weighed with the saddle and weights before a race.to be of the weight determined by such a weighing.
weighing 近义词
careful consideration
更多weighing例句
- Jillian, who at the time of the accident was 5 years old and weighed just under 37 pounds, was belted into a Big Kid booster that had a “Side Impact Tested” label stitched into the seatback.
- Brain imaging studies show that the prefrontal cortex turns on when we weigh risks and make decisions about how to act.
- The curtain has been pulled back, but the public has every right to weigh in on this, just like big institutions always have.
- As the Boston Red Sox weighed whether to bring back Alex Cora as their manager these past few weeks, it was never the legalities of the move that gave them pause.
- In the case of a 2015 officer-involved shooting, for example, the review board had to weigh the case without having access to key documents and interviews.
- Today, there are 360 NFL players weighing at least 300 pounds.
- Millions of Scots are weighing up their own internal head vs. heart battles.
- Barrels of wine, weighing 900 pounds each, are still toppled on one another.
- It demands weighing the interests of all voters rather than advocating for the interests of just one group.
- Weighing in on issues that have been decided for decades is the equivalent of saying nothing at all.
- Her black eyes were fixed intently on his face, but she was thinking, weighing in her mind some suddenly-formed project.
- How gracefully she led off the merry dance whilst clogs were on her spirits, weighing upon every movement.
- Sometimes a piece weighing nearly a pound is found, and a weight of even ten pounds is recorded.
- The mixture was washed on the eighteenth of the said month, and a small grain of gold, weighing one-half real, was obtained.
- A grain of the appearance of silver, and weighing as much as one real, was obtained.