Modifies a noun

• reaction: Patients ( 40 ) with systemic lupus erythematosus had 10 % weakly positive reaction for ASA.

• state: Charlesworth's wife had only been confined about a month, and was in a very weakly state.

• fish: These neurons are involved in sensory processing in weakly electric fish.

• plasma: Keston, D.A. and Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. ( 2003 ) Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic electron-positron plasma.

• ion: The relative effect of the ions is the reverse of the Hofmeister series just given with weakly hydrated ions binding best, i.e.

• cardinal: The existential quantifier argument will work if the ordinal stage at which the model is being constructed is a weakly compact cardinal.

Modifying Another Word

• only: Her brief was to examine the lack of housing supply and explain why it reacts only weakly to a rise in prices.

• rather: The Chairman, Mr LEES said she was a rather weakly girl and was at present receiving instruction to a considerable extent.

• too: In some cases the NEO is held together too weakly to be able to absorb the energy transfer required for deflexion.

Used with adjective complement

• respond: In fact, new housing supply responds fairly weakly to changes in house prices.