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paperweights

paperweights is the plural of paperweight.

Meaning of paperweight

Noun

paperweight (plural paperweights)

  1. A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
    • The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist
  2. Any object used for this purpose.
    • John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
  3. (slang) A useless piece of equipment.
    • On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight.

Questions about paperweights

What is paperweights the plural of?
Paperweights is the plural of paperweight.

Words near paperweights in the dictionary

  1. Papertsian
  2. paperwall
  3. paperware
  4. paperwares
  5. paperweight
  6. paperweights
  7. paperwhite
  8. paperwhites
  9. paperwoman
  10. paperwomen
  11. paperwork

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