Crossword clues for dumbbell
dumbbell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dumbbell \dumb"bell`\, dumb-bell \dumb"-bell`\, n. An exercising weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise.
2. an ignorant or foolish person.
Syn: dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"weighted bar used for exercise," 1711, originally an apparatus like that used to ring a church bell, but without the bell (hence dumb); used for exercise but sometimes also to practice ringing changes. Figurative sense of "blockhead, stupid person" attested by 1918, American English college slang.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context weightlifting English) A weight consisting of two disks or spheres attached to a short bar; used for exercise and weight training 2 (context pejorative English) A stupid person
WordNet
Wikipedia
The dumbbell, a type of free weight, is a piece of equipment used in weight training. It can be used individually or in pairs, with one in each hand.
- A dumbbell is a piece of equipment used in weight training
Dumbbell may also refer to:
- Dumbbells (film), a 2014 film
- The Dumbbell Nebula is a planetary nebula (M27), which is shaped like a dumbbell
- Physics: A p atomic orbital has the approximate shape of a pair of lobes on opposite sides of the nucleus, or a somewhat dumbbell shape
- The name " dumbbell tenement" was also used for the apartment buildings in the Lower East Side of New York City in the late 19th century
- A " Dumbbell interchange" is a type of road interchange
- Dumbbell interstitials, a type of crystal defect
- John Dumbell, a New Zealand rugby union footballer
- DUMBBELLS, mnemonic for cholinergic overdose, also known as SLUDGE syndrome
Usage examples of "dumbbell".
The latter was a huge chamber with squash courts, dumbbells, Indian clubs, a duckpin bowling alley, and other strenuous opportunities.
These new viruslike dumbbells were much more energetic than the standard Clemons dumbbells.
Pete Apodaca will give his wife Betty a black eye or a broken arm in payment for that, and meanwhile Floyd Cowlie and Carl Abeyta will be rolling around on the Floresta office floor laughing about what a lot of dumbbells we all are.
He also descries promise in the figure of Mr. George himself, striding towards them in his morning exercise with his pipe in his mouth, no stock on, and his muscular arms, developed by broadsword and dumbbell, weightily asserting themselves through his light shirt-sleeves.
We’ve got barbells and dumbbells for every occasion — and we have the ballroom’s splendid view of the Atlantic Ocean.
We’ve got barbells and dumbbells for every occasion—and we have the ballroom’s splendid view of the Atlantic Ocean.
For the front deltoids I also do three sets of lateral raises and seated dumbbell presses.
Because the gravity was even more meager than the light was dim, the town had been designed as a fully three-dimensional space, with railings and glide ropes and flying dumbbell waiters, cliffside balconies and elevators, chutes and ladders, diving boards and trampolines, hanging restaurants and plinth pavilions, all illuminated by bright white floating lamp globes.
By Christmas they had set up the first automated assembly line process to construct Clemons Dumbbell etched boards.
She had to explain to them the severe catastrophic possibilities of Clemons Dumbbells not built to spec.
Then I stripped the other ends and shunted across a section of the Clemons Dumbbells.
If we can't find a power source to overload the Clemons Dumbbells in the ECCs, they get stuck in that positive feedback loop and will eventually go big bang!
In a few short seconds we were peering at a perfectly good cube of Clemons Dumbbells.
The Clemons Dumbbells started whining loudly and at about the pitch of a referee's whistle.
The second and larger automated Clemons Dumbbell deposition systems (on a higher floor) were just now coming online and would be a couple of months behind the system put in place in our basement.