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Weighs vs Weighted - What's the difference?

weighs | weighted |

As verbs the difference between weighs and weighted

is that weighs is third-person singular of weigh while weighted is past tense of weight.

As an adjective weighted is

having weights on it.

weighs

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

    Related terms

    * (l)

    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
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 31 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman citation , page= , passage=Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off. }}