paperweight
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paperweight (plural paperweights)
- A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- 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.
- Any object used for this purpose.
- John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
- (slang) A useless piece of equipment.
Translations
small, decorative, somewhat weighty object
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any object used for this purpose
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slang: useless object
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