"weigh up" meaning in All languages combined

See weigh up on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: weighs up [present, singular, third-person], weighing up [participle, present], weighed up [participle, past], weighed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} weigh up (third-person singular simple present weighs up, present participle weighing up, simple past and past participle weighed up)
  1. To assess a person or situation Related terms: size up Translations (assess a situation): inschatten (Dutch), peilen (Dutch), 評価する (hyōka suru) (Japanese), whakaraupeka (Maori), procijéniti (alt: проције́нити) [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), procjenjívati (alt: процјењи́вати) [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), sopesar (Spanish)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weighs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "weigh up (third-person singular simple present weighs up, present participle weighing up, simple past and past participle weighed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She looked at him carefully, trying to weigh him up. Was he really telling the truth?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assess a person or situation"
      ],
      "id": "en-weigh_up-en-verb-gTdI3rNI",
      "links": [
        [
          "assess",
          "assess"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "size up"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "inschatten"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "peilen"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hyōka suru",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "評価する"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "whakaraupeka"
        },
        {
          "alt": "проције́нити",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "procijéniti"
        },
        {
          "alt": "процјењи́вати",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "procjenjívati"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "assess a situation",
          "word": "sopesar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "weigh up"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weighs up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weighed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "weigh up (third-person singular simple present weighs up, present participle weighing up, simple past and past participle weighed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "size up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She looked at him carefully, trying to weigh him up. Was he really telling the truth?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assess a person or situation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assess",
          "assess"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "inschatten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "peilen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hyōka suru",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "評価する"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "whakaraupeka"
    },
    {
      "alt": "проције́нити",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "procijéniti"
    },
    {
      "alt": "процјењи́вати",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "procjenjívati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "assess a situation",
      "word": "sopesar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "weigh up"
}

Download raw JSONL data for weigh up meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.