WEIGHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weighing mean? 

• WEIGHING (noun)
  The noun WEIGHING has 1 sense:

1. careful consideration

  Familiarity information: WEIGHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEIGHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Careful consideration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

advisement; deliberation; weighing

Context example:

a little deliberation would have deterred them

Hypernyms ("weighing" is a kind of...):

consideration (the process of giving careful thought to something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weighing"):

think (an instance of deliberate thinking)

Derivation:

weigh (show consideration for; take into account)

 Context examples 

A term used to describe an infant born weighing 5.5 pounds (2500 grams) or less.

(Low birth weight, NCI Dictionary)

She was a little occupied in weighing her own feelings, and trying to understand the degree of her agitation, which she rather thought was considerable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

That ship, wherever it was, was weighing anchor whilst she spoke.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

An infant weighing 5-1/2 pounds or less at birth.

(Low birth weight, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

It is different from being overweight, which means weighing too much.

(Obesity, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

In one supermassive system called BL Lacertae, weighing 200 million times the mass of our Sun, scientists have inferred time delays millions of times greater than what this study found.

(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)

Here he is, he continued, as we made our way into the weighing enclosure, where only owners and their friends find admittance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Weighing in at 12.6 Earth masses, the planet is more massive than Earth but less massive than Neptune (which is more than 17 Earth masses).

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

There is no reason, therefore, to think that money troubles have been weighing upon his mind.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The condition of weighing two, three, or more times the ideal weight, so called because it is associated with many serious and life-threatening disorders.

(Morbid Obesity, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)