lightweight
pronunciation
How to pronounce lightweight in British English:
UK [ˈlaɪtweɪt]
How to pronounce lightweight in American English:
US [ˈlaɪtweɪt]
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- Noun:
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
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- Adjective:
- having relatively little weight
- having no importance or influence
Word Origin
- lightweight (adj.)
- also light-weight, 1773 in horse-racing, also in pugilism; from light (adj.1) + weight. Figurative sense of "inconsequential" first attested 1809.
Example
- 1. It is very lightweight and not thread safe .
- 2. Lightweight loading of widgets due to the dojo mobile parser .
- 3. Those who considered him lightweight misjudged him .
- 4. Firefox 's lightweight extension framework has spent a long time in development .
- 5. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies .