dead weightdead-weightn.

Etymology: dead adj. 29.

a. The heavy unrelieved weight of an inert body. (literal and figurative.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [noun] > constant or invariable

dead weight1660

dead load1866

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxiii. 238 When the Sucker came to be moved onely with a dead weight or pressure.

1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 81 The Moving Cause, as Mens Hands, Horses, or Dead Weight.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 12 Pedantry and Bigotry are Mill-Stones able to sink the best Book, that bears the least part of their dead weight.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlvi. 533 Mrs. Gamp..forced him backwards down the stairs by the mere oppression of her dead-weight.

b. technical. (See quots.)

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dead Weight, heavy merchandise forming part of a ship's cargo.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dead weight, a vessel's lading when it consists of heavy goods, but particularly such as pay freight according to their weight and not their stowage.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dead-weight, the weight of the vehicle of any kind; that which must be transported in addition to the load.

1881 J. Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 412 The saving in dead weight, by this improvement alone, is from 10 to 16 per cent.

2. A heavy inert weight: figurative a heavy weight or burden pressing with unrelieved force upon a person, institution, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > burdensomeness > a burden

burdenc971

chargec1300

packa1325

burnc1375

fardelc1380

weightc1380

carriagea1556

load1600

taxa1628

overpoise1697

dead weight1720

backload1725

millstone1787

tin kettle1796

nightmare-weight1847

ball and chain1855

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 300 The Scots..were always the dead Weight upon the King's Affairs.

1785 C. Thomas in Med. Communications 2 79 A lump or dead weight, as he termed it, in his inside.

1789 A. Young Jrnl. 17 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 113 His character is a dead weight upon him.

1822 W. Hazlitt Conversat. Lords in Table-talk (1852) 242 We not only deter the student from the attempt, but lay a dead-weight upon the imagination.

1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow III. xviii. 229 It was extremely exhilarating..to find himself free..of the dead weight of debt.

†3. ‘A name given to an advance by the Bank of England to Government on account of the half-pay and pensions of the retired officers of the Army and Navy’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade). Obsolete.The debt was paid off by an annuity which ceased in 1867.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > national or public debt

National Debt1653

dead weight1823

dead-weight debt1905

1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 658 The six hundred millions of Debt and the hundred and fifty millions of dead-weight.

1826 J. Hume in Hansard XVI. 184–5 The year 1822, when Mr. Vansittart brought before parliament the notable expedient to pay for the dead-weight..The country were induced to believe, that in forty-four years the whole of the dead-weight would be annihilated by the gradual decrement, by death, of the persons to whom the allowances out of it were payable.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

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1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 13 Placed on the superannuation or dead weight list.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 3/1 Dead-weight expenses have almost reached the irreducible minimum.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 373/1 Deadweight capacity..is..the amount of deadweight which can be carried on the holds at load draught when the vessel is fully charged with coals and stores.

C2.

dead-weight debt n. a debt not covered by assets, such as the greater part of the British National Debt.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > national or public debt

National Debt1653

dead weight1823

dead-weight debt1905

1905 Daily Chron. 16 May 4/4 There is dead-weight debt, and there is remunerative debt.

1909 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 4/4 Having brought the dead-weight Debt down to the total at which it stood twenty years ago.

dead-weight valve n. (also dead-weight safety-valve) a safety-valve kept down by a heavy weight.

ΚΠ

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 151/2 Dead weight safety valve.

1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 16 A dead-weight safety valve.

1930 Engineering 10 Oct. 461/2 Should the steam stop valve on the boiler be closed..the deadweight valve is opened.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	dead weight
释义	dead weightdead-weightn. Etymology: dead adj. 29. 1. a. The heavy unrelieved weight of an inert body. (literal and figurative.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [noun] > constant or invariable dead weight1660 dead load1866 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxxiii. 238 When the Sucker came to be moved onely with a dead weight or pressure. 1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 81 The Moving Cause, as Mens Hands, Horses, or Dead Weight. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 12 Pedantry and Bigotry are Mill-Stones able to sink the best Book, that bears the least part of their dead weight. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xlvi. 533 Mrs. Gamp..forced him backwards down the stairs by the mere oppression of her dead-weight. b. technical. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dead Weight, heavy merchandise forming part of a ship's cargo. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Dead weight, a vessel's lading when it consists of heavy goods, but particularly such as pay freight according to their weight and not their stowage. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Dead-weight, the weight of the vehicle of any kind; that which must be transported in addition to the load. 1881 J. Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 412 The saving in dead weight, by this improvement alone, is from 10 to 16 per cent. 2. A heavy inert weight: figurative a heavy weight or burden pressing with unrelieved force upon a person, institution, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > burdensomeness > a burden burdenc971 chargec1300 packa1325 burnc1375 fardelc1380 weightc1380 carriagea1556 load1600 taxa1628 overpoise1697 dead weight1720 backload1725 millstone1787 tin kettle1796 nightmare-weight1847 ball and chain1855 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 300 The Scots..were always the dead Weight upon the King's Affairs. 1785 C. Thomas in Med. Communications 2 79 A lump or dead weight, as he termed it, in his inside. 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 17 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 113 His character is a dead weight upon him. 1822 W. Hazlitt Conversat. Lords in Table-talk (1852) 242 We not only deter the student from the attempt, but lay a dead-weight upon the imagination. 1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow III. xviii. 229 It was extremely exhilarating..to find himself free..of the dead weight of debt. †3. ‘A name given to an advance by the Bank of England to Government on account of the half-pay and pensions of the retired officers of the Army and Navy’ (Simmonds Dict. Trade). Obsolete.The debt was paid off by an annuity which ceased in 1867. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > national or public debt National Debt1653 dead weight1823 dead-weight debt1905 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Sept. 658 The six hundred millions of Debt and the hundred and fifty millions of dead-weight. 1826 J. Hume in Hansard XVI. 184–5 The year 1822, when Mr. Vansittart brought before parliament the notable expedient to pay for the dead-weight..The country were induced to believe, that in forty-four years the whole of the dead-weight would be annihilated by the gradual decrement, by death, of the persons to whom the allowances out of it were payable. Compounds C1. attributive. ΚΠ 1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 13 Placed on the superannuation or dead weight list. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 7 May 3/1 Dead-weight expenses have almost reached the irreducible minimum. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 373/1 Deadweight capacity..is..the amount of deadweight which can be carried on the holds at load draught when the vessel is fully charged with coals and stores. C2. dead-weight debt n. a debt not covered by assets, such as the greater part of the British National Debt. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > national or public debt National Debt1653 dead weight1823 dead-weight debt1905 1905 Daily Chron. 16 May 4/4 There is dead-weight debt, and there is remunerative debt. 1909 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 4/4 Having brought the dead-weight Debt down to the total at which it stood twenty years ago. dead-weight valve n. (also dead-weight safety-valve) a safety-valve kept down by a heavy weight. ΚΠ 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 151/2 Dead weight safety valve. 1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 16 A dead-weight safety valve. 1930 Engineering 10 Oct. 461/2 Should the steam stop valve on the boiler be closed..the deadweight valve is opened. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1660
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