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weigh up

verb

  1. tr, adverb to make an assessment of (a person, situation, etc); judge
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

When it falls unconscious, a ground crew drags the beast—which can weigh up to 5,000 lbs—into a net strapped to the chopper.

It is advice to sift, pore over, and weigh up, with a view to us deciding for ourselves.

For the determination of silver in nearly pure bullion the following process is used:—Weigh up 1.5054 gram of the alloy.

For the standard, weigh up 0.5 gram of copper, more or less, according to the quantity judged to be present in the assay.

"There's ten thousand dollars if there's an ounce," said the Company's man, and the weigh-up proved he was right.

Weigh up 1.7 gram of the substance and place it in the flask.

To standardise the solution, weigh up 0.25 gram of pure iodine in a small beaker.

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