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Lightweight
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- 1 Lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity.
- 2 Having less than average weight.
"[…] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards."
- 3 Lacking in strength.
"With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post."
- 4 Having a small footprint or performance impact.
- 1 weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use wordnet
- 2 having no importance or influence wordnet
- 1 A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- 2 A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. wordnet
- 3 A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- 4 a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds wordnet
- 5 A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
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- 6 a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds wordnet
- 7 One of little consequence or ability.
- 8 an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds wordnet
- 9 A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
""Wait, is this about the other night when you two lightweights totally went on that bender?""
- 10 someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous wordnet
- 11 A person with low endurance. broadly
- 12 A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- 13 Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
"He mentions the "huge engine, lying on its side"—it was in fact a 2-2-2 weighing but 27 tons, something of a lightweight, even for 1868."
- 1 To reduce the amount or weight of. transitive
"By extending the producer’s responsibility to the product’s disposal (its post-consumer life), issues previously outside the business calculus become of paramount importance. Because a producer knows it will have to bear the cost of collecting and valorizing the product, it must manage a new set of business matters. Can the packaging be lightweighted? Are the materials all recyclable?"
Etymology
From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).
From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).
From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).
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