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paperweight
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A paperweight is a small solid object which is placed on top of books to keep the papers from blowing in the breeze. Paper, due to its light weight and large surface area, has a tendency to move easily when pushed by a slight breeze, which can create disorder ...
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n. a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Above the buttes, the mile-high white clouds were as flat on the bottom as paperweights. ▪ Alcoves beside the fireplace held a collection of spotlit glass, bottles, flasks, paperweights. ▪ He rearranged a couple of silver paperweights ...
Usage examples of paperweight.
Tate should have no trouble convincing tourists that the conchs would make excellent doorstops, paperweights, or instruments through which children and guests could listen to the surging drum of distant ocean waves upon the beach.
The picture frames, a crystal bud vase, an assortment of tiny bronze cats, millefleur paperweights, a walnut gavel with a bronze plate on the handle.
Just to play it safe, she lightly tapped a paperweight upon her desk: a green, translucent pyramid, about the size of three computer diskettes stacked against each other.
Johnny blew up, ranting around the office, throwing a paperweight, an inkpad, ashtrays, everything his hands touched.
As with the Squire, however, Jonathan would find that the Moon Man liked the right sorts of things: eating apple pie and cream for breakfast, capering with platypi oa the riverbanks, strolling along between hedgerows, admiring marbles with the Squire and, it turned out in time, investigating the mysteries of kaleidoscopes and paperweights.
He had hoped that the Moon Man would sort things out for him--that he and the Professor and Dooly would be able to do a bit of fishing off the pier and have a leisurely supper or two with the linkmen and then have a cheerful trip home carrying a paperweight and a carton of books.
There were painted baskets and beaded curtains, paperweights with various objects suspended in them, dried flowers, colored grains and beans.
One held torn and ragged folds of the veil ripped from her throat, the other the weapon with which she had cheated death: a bronze paperweight, probably a miniature copy of a Barye, an elephant trumpeting.
Dr Savage's bequest had been somewhat liberally interpreted, for an inkwell, a pen tray, two letter files, two paperweights, a small bust of Homer, a packet of blotters and an air-cushion which had been in the swivel chair were gone, as well.
A lot of things that you couldn't use for much other than paperweights: Bombsights and old altimeters and doughboy helmets that wouldn't even make good planters.
Penari, thoroughly exasperated by now, snatched up the large translucent rock he used for a paperweight and threw it, nearly braining them both.
Then he peeked inside one of the cubbyholes and retrieved a glass paperweight that appeared to Jimmerson to be packed with hundreds of tiny glass flowers.
No tchotchkes, no fancy paperweights, no frivolous doodads cluttered its surface.
In time, he was encased like a scorpion inside a cheap gift shop acrylic resin paperweight.
At first, the motion looked like a commonplace of the microgravity environment, a loose paperweight wafting on an air current.