Crossword clues for paperweight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
paperweight \pa"per*weight`\ (p[=a]"p[~e]r*w[=a]t`), n. See under Paper, n.
Wiktionary
n. A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
WordNet
n. a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
Wikipedia
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 on a work surface. Due to its greater density and compact shape relative to paper, a paperweight, when placed on top of one or more sheets of paper, will prevent the paper(s) from moving. The object need not be particularly heavy itself to perform its function. Any small object, such as a cup or a stone, can serve as a paperweight, but decorative objects have been created specifically for this purpose.
Fine glass paperweights are widely produced, collected, and appreciated as works of art and are often exhibited in museums as examples of fine glass art. They are made entirely of glass by sole artisans, or factories, usually in limited editions. They first began to be produced, especially in France, in about 1845, but began a sustained revival and rise in popularity in the middle of the twentieth century.
Paperweight is a collection of writings by Stephen Fry, first published in the United Kingdom in 1992.
The book contains a wide selection of Fry's journalism, including comment pieces, reviews and criticism.
There are transcripts of several radio performances, including 22 appearances from BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends show in the character of eccentric Cambridge philologist Professor Donald Trefusis, who appeared as a major character in Fry's first novel, The Liar.
The book also includes the script of a play, Latin! (or Tobacco and Boys.), an early work by Fry set in a public school, which won the "Fringe First" prize at the Edinburgh Festival in 1980. It had a 2009 revival with performances opening on June 23 at The Cock Tavern Theatre in London, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher.
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.