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a. (context sports billiards snooker pool English) Describes a shot with exact, precise pace to leave the balls in the perfect position. Usually just touching a cushion or very close to another ball. n. 1 The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty. 2 A useless, usually encumbering factor.
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Deadweight or dead weight may refer to:
- Deadweight tonnage, a ship's carrying capacity, which includes cargo, fuel, crew etc.
- Structural load, one type of this is dead load, the fixed weight of a structure of piece of equipment, such as a bridge on its supports
- Deadweight loss, a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or service is not Pareto optimal
- Deadweight (American band), a San Francisco alternative hard rock trio
- "Deadweight" (song), a song by Beck from the film A Life Less Ordinary
- "Deadweight", a song by Roam from Backbone
- "Deadweight", a song by Parkway Drive from Deep Blue
- "Dead Weight" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
"Deadweight" is a single by Beck, taken from the soundtrack to the film A Life Less Ordinary. The song was nominated for Best Song from a Movie at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards, but lost out to Will Smith's " Men in Black". The song can also be found (in lossy) on the deluxe version of Odelay.
Deadweight is an alternative rock trio from San Francisco, California. Members include Ben Barnes (electric violin and vocals), Sam Bass (electric cello) and Paulo Baldi (drums). Deadweight began as a duo of Barnes and Bass who were graduates of San Francisco Conservatory of Music later joined by Baldi. Their first demo (1994) was produced by Jason Newsted of Metallica. Deadweight has toured both nationally and internationally and has opened for Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. Deadweight's third album, Stroking The Moon (2003), was released on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. Playing the violin and cello through a variety of guitar effects, their studio recorded material is surprisingly hard rock. Live performances display an eclecticism that has conjured a variety of descriptions by critics. Examples include, "(howling) like something out of Beethoven's most twisted hallucinations," "Eastern European Gypsy songs sung in the back of a big rig driven across tornado country by the ghost of the Marlboro Man" and "Charlie Daniels in hell playing a combination of Bartok and Zeppelin." Barnes has stated both Jimmy Page and Charlie Daniels are influences for their sound. Deadweight were winners of the SF Weekly's 1998 Wammy award for the category of "Beyond."
Usage examples of "deadweight".
Chains swing deadweight like useless limbs, snapping into zombie motion where cogs engage and flywheels turn.
Loop involvement, which was the preparatory-stage management strategy, was a grand forward-looking idea, but after four decades of accumulated optimization the Third Fleet software had become classic bloatware, total deadweight.
Does it seem rational that we create robots with minds capable of calculating hyperspace jumps, and then set them to work as deadweights to keep pleasure boats from floating away?
Other times, her hands felt cold as ice, almost deadweights at the ends of her wrists, and she would grow frantic, trying to move her fingers, terrified that they had become paralyzed.
Riane felt herself caught as if in a deep dream, her limbs felt like deadweights, her thoughts slow as frozen sap.
One would huddle together as close as possible for an hour and let the others have the space to wrestle and lift their comrades as deadweights, building back the muscles they had all lost, before changing over and letting the other group work and sweat.
Gerard had a couple of parties standing by with spars to try to bear the Pluto off — not that they could have achieved much against her three thousand tons deadweight — and the bight of an old sail filled with hammocks as a fend-off, and there was wild activity on the forecastle of the Pluto as well, but at the very last moment, with blasphemy crackling all round, the dismasted ship suddenly sheered off and everyone breathed again more freely, except Hornblower.
The Adventurer's bows, crumpling as they went, bit deeply into her side, fifteen, twenty feet in a chaos of tearing, rending metal: the stopping power of 10,000 tons deadweight travelling at 15 knots is fantastic.
As you can see on your monitors, it is a massive ship, roughly thirty percent heavier in deadweight tonnage than standard starships.
Like a diesel locomotive pulling a long train up a grade, the launch struggled to gain momentum, finally increasing its speed until it was dragging the deadweight below the water at a respectable eight knots.
As Isaac and Yagharek watched, it jack-knifed at its centre and seemed to kiss its own tail end, slowly relaxing until it hung deadweight again.
It was perhaps a wise enough precaution, and he never slowed them up, even lugging that deadweight.
But its long, rough neck had been broken and its head hung in a deadweight of fire among the tares.