paperweight
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paperweight
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noun paperweights · paper-weight
- 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.
- Any object used for this purpose. John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
- A useless piece of equipment. On Windows, the card has a working driver. On Linux right now, it's a paperweight.
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noun small, decorative, somewhat weighty object
| Español | pisapapeles |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 문진 munjin |
| 日本語 | 文鎮 bunchin, 卦算 keisan |
| 中文 | 鎮紙 /镇纸 zhènzhǐ, 紙鎮 /纸镇 zhǐzhèn, 書鎮 /书镇 shūzhèn, 紙壓 /纸压 zhǐyā |
| Português | pisa-papéis, peso de papel |
| Français | presse-papiers, presse-papier |
| Deutsch | Briefbeschwerer |
| Italiano | fermacarte |
| Ελληνικά | πρες παπιέ pres papié |
| Română | prespapier |
| Русский | пресс-папье́ press-papʹjé |
| Tiếng Việt | bàn thẩm, chặn giấy |
noun any object used for this purpose
| Español | pisapapeles |
|---|---|
| Português | pisa-papéis, peso de papel |
| Français | presse-papiers |
| Deutsch | Briefbeschwerer |
| Italiano | fermacarte |
| Русский | пресс-папье́ press-papʹjé |
Talk about this word "paperweight." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/paperweight. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. paperweight. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/paperweight "paperweight." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/paperweight.
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@misc{paperweight_2026,
title = {paperweight},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/paperweight},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
