Grow vs Weigh - What's the difference?
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(ergative) To become bigger.
To appear or sprout.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
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(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
(obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
* Shakespeare
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.
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*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
In intransitive terms the difference between grow and weigh
is that grow is to appear or sprout while weigh is to be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.In transitive terms the difference between grow and weigh
is that grow is to cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants while weigh is to have a certain weight.As verbs the difference between grow and weigh
is that grow is to become bigger while weigh is to determine the weight of an object.grow
English
Verb
- Children grow quickly.
- Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
- A long tail began to grow from his backside.
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- He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
- Have you ever grown your hair before?
- The boy grew wise as he matured.
- The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
- You have grown strong.
- Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow .
Usage notes
* Growed is a slang or dialect inflection for the simple past and past participle.Antonyms
* shrinkDerived terms
* grow a pair * growed * grower * grow house * growing pains * growing point * grown-up * grow on * grow op * grow out of * growth * grow up * outgrow * overgrowweigh
English
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