Carry_weight vs Involve - What's the difference?
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To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
To have influence.
* 1948 Rollo H. Myers, Erik Satie, D. Dobson, p31
* 2002 Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, p376
* 2010 Gordon Ryan, American Voices: State of Rebellion, p247
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
* (John Locke)
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
* (John Milton)
* Tillotson
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
Carry_weight is a related term of involve.
As verbs the difference between carry_weight and involve
is that carry_weight is to be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs while involve is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.carry_weight
English
Verb
(head)- Your excuses don't carry weight with me.
- When M. Paladilhe was elected my friends said to me: 'Never mind; later on he'll vote for you, Maestro, and his support will carry a lot of weight' . I never had his vote, nor his support, nor his weight.
- Manning Senior carries a lot of weight around here, he has a lot of friends ; a lot of professional clout and can obviously get things done just barely within the lines of legality.
- A recommendation from him carries a lot of weight around here.
involve
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.