Reweighs

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of determining the mass of an item again involves reassessing its weight after an initial measurement
2. To take the weight of an object a second time to confirm or update the previous measurement
3. To perform a new weighing of something to check its mass once more

Etymology: "Reweighs" is the third-person singular present form of "reweigh", which means to weigh something again, usually to check or correct an earlier measurement. An inflected form like this takes its meaning from the verb itself, so the history lies entirely in that base word. "Reweigh" is a simple combination of the prefix "re-", meaning again, and "weigh". The "re-" comes from Latin, where it had the same sense of repetition, and reached English through Old French. "Weigh" is far older. It descends from Old English "wegan", meaning to carry or move, and the idea of measuring weight developed from that sense of lifting and bearing a load. The word thus joins an ancient Germanic verb of carrying with a Latin prefix that English borrowed in the medieval period.

Synonyms: reassesses, recalculates, re-evaluates, rechecks, reconsiders

Antonyms: accepts, ignores, overlooks, dismisses, neglects