Weigh-ins

Definition

weigh /weÇ/ v ၁။ ခ်ိန္သည္။ ခ်ိန္တြယ္သည္။ He weighed himself on the bathroom scales. ❍ The load must be weighed before it is put in the washing-machine. ❍ He weighed the stone in his hand (ie estimated how heavy it was by holding it). ၂။ ေလးသည္။ အေလးခ်ိန္ရိွသည္။ How much do you weigh? (ie How heavy are you?). ❍ She weighs 60 kilos. ❍ ( infml ) These cases weigh a ton (ie are very heavy) — what have you got in them? ၃။ (က) ~ sth (with/against sth) ႏိႈင္းခ်ိန္သည္။ weighing the pros and cons ❍ weigh one plan against another ❍ weigh the advantages of the investment against the risks involved. (ခ) ~ sth (up) ေလ့လာခ်ိန္ဆသည္။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ သည္။ တြက္ဆသည္။ weigh the consequences of an action/ the evidence ❍ weigh up one's chances of success. ၄။ ေက်ာက္ဆူး ႏုတ္သည္။ We weighed anchor. ၅။ ~ (with sb) (against sb/sth) အေလးသာေစသည္။ His criminal record weighed heavily against him (with the jury). ❍ Her past achievements weighed in her favour as a candidate. ❏ weigh sb down [ PHRV ] ဖိစီးသည္။ weighed down by worry and overwork ❍ The responsibilities of the job are weighing her down. ❏ weigh sb/sth down [ PHRV ] ၫြတ္(ေန)သည္။ The porter was weighed down by all the luggage. ❍ the branches were weighed down with ripe apples. ❏ weigh-in n ( pl -ins ) (usu sing ) (ၿပိဳင္ပြဲမစမီ) ကိုယ္ အေလးခ်ိန္ စစ္ေဆးျခင္း။ ❏ weigh in (at sth) [ PHRV ] (ၿပိဳင္ပြဲမဝင္မီ) ကိုယ္ အေလး ခ်ိန္သည္။ He weighed in at several pounds below the limit. ❏ weigh in (with sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အရိွန္အဝါႏွင့္ ဝင္ေျပာသည္၊ ဖိေျပာသည္။ At that point, the chairman weighed in with a strong defence of company policy. ❏ weighing-machine n ကုန္ခ်ိန္စက္။ ကတၱား။ ခ်ိန္စက္။ ❏ weighing-scale n (usu pl ) ခ်ိန္ခြင္။ ❏ weigh on sb/sth [ PHRV ] ဖိစီးသည္။ ေသာကေရာက္ ေစသည္။ The responsibilities weigh (heavily) on him. ❍ It was obvious that something was weighing on her mind. ❏ weigh sth out [ PHRV ] ခ်ိန္လိုက္သည္။ weigh out a kilo of tomatoes ❍ Weigh out all the ingredients before you start making the cake. ❏ weigh sb up [ PHRV ] ေလ့လာအကဲခတ္သည္။ For most of the interview he sat in silence, weighing me up. ❏ weigh one's words [ IDM ] စကားလံုးေရြးခ်ယ္ သံုးႏႈန္း သည္။ I must weigh my words to avoid any misunderstanding.

Examples

1. Tell me Clare
2. how much do you weigh?
3. The baby weighed 7 pounds when she was born.
4. [weigh a ton] : Your suitcase weighs a ton.
5. Weigh yourself daily and mark your weight on the chart.
6. They will weigh your package at the post office.
7. The judge weighed all the facts before reaching a verdict.
8. [weigh something against something] : Those costs must be weighed against the environmental benefits.
9. [weigh against] : Unfortunately
10. his batting and fielding weigh against him.
11. [weigh heavily with someone] : The defeat weighed heavily with the President.