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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
Joan Severance

Meaning of "dead weight" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEAD WEIGHT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEAD WEIGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dead weight is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEAD WEIGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dead weight in the English dictionary

The first definition of dead weight in the dictionary is a heavy weight or load. Other definition of dead weight is an oppressive burden; encumbrance. Dead weight is also the difference between the loaded and the unloaded weights of a ship.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEAD WEIGHT

dead marine
dead matter
dead men
dead on
dead point
dead president
dead reckoning
dead ringer
Dead Sea
Dead Sea Scrolls
dead season
dead set
dead soldier
dead stock
dead time
dead to the world
Dead White European Male
Dead White Male
dead wire
dead zone

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEAD WEIGHT

air freight
air-freight
birth weight
bright
curb weight
eight
featherweight
freight
gross weight
head height
heavyweight
height
lightweight
middleweight
molecular weight
net weight
overweight
underweight
weight
welterweight
x-height

Synonyms and antonyms of dead weight in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dead weight» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEAD WEIGHT

Find out the translation of dead weight to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dead weight from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dead weight» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自重
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peso muerto
570 millions of speakers

English

dead weight
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मृत वजन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوزن الساكن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мертвым грузом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peso morto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত ওজন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poids mort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berat mati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eigengewicht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自重
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자중
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bobot mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tử trọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறந்த எடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत वजन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölü ağırlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peso morto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciężar
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мертвим вантажем
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greutate mort
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νεκρό βάρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dooie gewig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dödvikt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dødvekt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dead weight

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD WEIGHT»

The term «dead weight» is regularly used and occupies the 66.802 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD WEIGHT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dead weight» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dead weight» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dead weight

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2 QUOTES WITH «DEAD WEIGHT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dead weight.
1
Howard Mumford Jones
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
2
Joan Severance
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEAD WEIGHT»

Discover the use of dead weight in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dead weight and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dead Weight
Sacramento private investigator Lizzy Gardner is determined to find two missing women-- teenager Carol Fullerton, who vanished twenty-one years ago from a California highway and Diane Kramer, not seen for six months after empying her saving ...
T. R. Ragan, 2012
2
Dead Weight: A Sheriff Bill Gastner Mystery
Steven F. Havill has been delighting readers with Undersheriff Bill Gastner for years. In this eighth book in a series full of authentic New Mexico flavor, 69 year-old Bill Gastner takes on the job of sheriff of Posadas County.
Steven F. Havill, 2000
3
Dead Weight: A Thriller
A Thriller John Francome. DEAD WEIGHT A Thriller John Francome St. Martin's Minotaur fit New York DEAD WEIGHT. Copyright © 2001 by John Francome and Mike.
John Francome, 2005
4
Dead Weight
He stood in the doorway to the kitchen, his arms above his head, his long, bony fingers curled like claws.
Frank Kane, 2012
5
Dead Weight: Based on a True Story
In 1910 Charleston, South Carolina, a Jewish merchant is murdered, a black man is accused, and a white populace is primed for a hanging.
Batt Humphreys, 2010
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Dead Weight
Small-town sheriff Bill Gastner faces a crisis when an anonymous letter accuses one of his trusted deputies of corruption, a crisis complicated further by the death of one half of a troubled couple that looks increasingly like murder.
Steven Havill, 2002
7
Dead Weight
Lori Avocato. A PAULINE SOKOL MYSTERY Dead Weight A Pauline Sokol Mystery By LoriAvocato Author of. Front Cover.
Lori Avocato, 2013
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Dead Weight
Sam Falkirk, Captain of the World Police and stationed at the World Council building in New York, has a special interest in investigating the sudden and inexplicable death of Angelo Augustine, the brother of his girl friend.
E.C. Tubb, 2014
9
Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries
and without insurance, represents a dead-weight loss to the consumer/ Alternatively, suppose the individual must pay 50 percent of the medical bills — that is, the individual receives a subsidy at a rate of 50 percent. Demand falls to s' , and the ...
William Jack, 1999
10
To amend Merchant marine act of 1920: Joint hearings, ...
Ninety-one 9,000 dead-weight ton steel cargo vessels — Steel, one screw, two decks, three island. Oil burner. Seventy -six 9,400 dead-weight ton steel cargo vessels — Steel, one screw, two decks, three island. Oil burner. Twenty-nine 9,500 ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 1922

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEAD WEIGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dead weight is used in the context of the following news items.
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Even Bethenny can't save 'Real Housewives of New York'
It's time to drop some dead weight (here's looking at you Ms. Morgan), and introduce a batch of New York power women who offer more than ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
2
Diary Room: Adam Poch's Player Rankings: Big Brother 17 - Week 2
While I am not a proponent of throwing challenges when you are on the block – he did a great job of being dead weight when Da'Vonne was ... «Big Brother Network, Jul 15»
3
Ground Effect Vehicles: Adopting an Orphaned Technology
... in front of the vehicle's bow during the takeoff and has a tendency to stick to the hull's surfaces, adding unwanted dead weight during liftoff. «STRATFOR, Jul 15»
4
On their own
TV was the cash cow; print was the dead weight. Management gambled that separating the two very different businesses would increase the ... «City Pulse, Jul 15»
5
Daily tournament plays and lineups: 7/7
For now, let's just be thankful that Sale and the Dodgers were good enough to carry to dead weight. Tuesday's slate is interesting if only for the ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
6
Earnings Surprise in Focus - Safe Bulkers, Inc (NYSE:SB)
As of February 15, 2013, the Company had a fleet of 25 drybulk vessels, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 2,282,400 dead weight tons ... «Investor Newswire, Jul 15»
7
UAH Student's Research Could Hasten the Dawn of Hybrid Rocket …
... rate – which can lead to simpler designs – you are leaving less unburned fuel, so you are not carrying all this dead weight,” Hitt says. «Newswise, Jul 15»
8
Love Island couples test their relationships: 'I was clinging on for …
Max Morley jokes: "It was like pulling a dead weight." After much splashing, thrashing and collective spluttering, the overall winners finally cross ... «Digital Spy UK, Jul 15»
9
How to calculate your company car tax
... of weight, and can make all the difference between your company vehicle being a perk or a financial dead weight that you long to be free of. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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It's not just corruption, it's capitalism—The youth and the workers …
In recent days he has been trying to throw all of the dead weight overboard before the ship sinks. The initial response was to be expected ... «In Defense of Marxism, Jul 15»

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