Deemed vs Weighed - What's the difference?
deemed | weighed |
(deem)
(obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
(obsolete) To adjudge; decree.
(obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).
(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
* Emerson
To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
(weigh)
To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
* Spenser
To consider a subject. (rfex)
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(nautical) To weigh anchor.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
*:‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between deemed and weighed
is that deemed is past tense of deem while weighed is past tense of weigh.deemed
English
Verb
(head)deem
English
Verb
(en verb)- And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.
Synonyms
* judge * consider; see alsoDerived terms
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* * * ----weighed
English
Verb
(head)weigh
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Verb
(en verb)- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- Towards the evening we wayed , and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh