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Weighted vs Weighed - What's the difference?

weighted | weighed |

As verbs the difference between weighed and weighted

is that weighed is past tense of weigh while weighted is past tense of weight.

As an adjective weighted is

having weights on it.

weighted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (weight)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having weights on it.
  • She wore a weighted dress so it wouldn't blow in the wind.
  • Biased, so as to favour one party.
  • The competition was weighted so he'd be the clear favourite to win.
  • (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
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    weighed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (weigh)

  • weigh

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To determine the weight of an object.
  • Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
  • He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
  • (figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
  • You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
  • (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
  • * Spenser
  • could not weigh of worthiness aright
  • To consider a subject. (rfex)
  • To have a certain weight.
  • I weigh ten and a half stone.
  • To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
  • * Cowper
  • They only weigh the heavier.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
  • To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
  • * John Locke
  • This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
  • (nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
  • (nautical) To weigh anchor.
  • * 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
  • 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.
  • *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
  • Weigh the vessel up.
  • (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I weigh not you.
  • * Spenser
  • all that she so dear did weigh

    Derived terms

    * weigh down * weigh in/weigh-in * weight * weighty * weigh up * weigh on