Difference between Weigh and Consider

What is the difference between Weigh and Consider?

Weigh as a verb is to determine the weight of an object. while Consider as a verb is to think about seriously.

Weigh

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To determine the weight of an object. Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. To consider a subject. To have a certain weight. To raise an anchor free of the seabed.

Example sentence: How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Consider

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To think about seriously.To think of doing.To assign some quality to.To look at attentively.To take up as an example.To debate or dispose of a motion.

Example sentence: Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

We hope you now know whether to use Weigh or Consider in your sentence.

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