weighing

1. To determine the weight of an object.
2. 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.

3. To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.

   You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

4. To judge; to estimate.
5. To consider a subject.
6. To have a certain weight.

   I weigh ten and a half stone.

7. To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
8. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
9. To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
10. To weigh anchor.
11. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
12. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

1. The process by which something is weighed.

   She took her baby to the clinic for regular weighings.

adjective

That weighs or burdens.