give weight
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To attach importance to.
verb
To improve the credibility or legitimacy of.
Example Sentences
- "… merely observing that if you were to give weight to such an objection, there is not a panel who would not be entitled to the same benefit …"
- "Mr. Bailey: Well, I man, that's the opinion of an adversary, if it's a sincere opinion, which I question. I wouldn't give it much weight."
- "There certainly are some cases in which a person's failure to give weight to his or her future interests is irrational."
- "Requiring concrete suggestions or motivations beyond those actually needed by a person of ordinary skill in the art, and failing to give weight to suggestions implicit from the prior art as a whole [...] errs on the side of issuing patents to obvious inventions [...]""
- "What were these 250 men to come for? – I imagined it was to give weight to the petition."
- "The next question is, we are told that this sham Estimate – for there is no intention of making it a real Estimate – is to give weight to this country in the approaching Conference."