Noun
paperweight (plural paperweights)
- A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away.
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
- Any object used for this purpose.
John used his coffee mug as a paperweight.
- (slang) A useless piece of equipment.
Translations
small, decorative, somewhat weighty object
- Belarusian: прэс-пап'е́ n (pres-papʺjé)
- Bulgarian: преспапие́ n (prespapié)
- Catalan: petjapapers m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鎮紙/镇纸 (zh) (zhènzhǐ), 紙鎮/纸镇 (zhǐzhèn), 書鎮/书镇 (zh) (shūzhèn), 紙壓/纸压 (zh) (zhǐyā)
- Czech: těžítko (cs) n
- Dutch: presse-papier (nl)
- Finnish: paperipaino (fi)
- French: presse-papiers (fr) m, presse-papier (fr) m
- Galician: calcapapeis m
- German: Briefbeschwerer (de) m
- Greek: πρες παπιέ n (pres papié)
- Hungarian: papírnehezék
- Irish: tromán páipéir m
- Italian: fermacarte (it) m
- Japanese: 文鎮 (ja) (ぶんちん, bunchin), 卦算 (ja) (けいさん, keisan)
- Korean: 문진(文鎭) (ko) (munjin)
- Norman: paids à papi m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brevpresse, papirvekt m or f
- Nynorsk: papirvekt f
- Polish: przycisk do papieru m
- Portuguese: pisa-papéis m (Portugal), peso de papel m (Brazil)
- Romanian: prespapier (ro) n
- Russian: пресс-папье́ (ru) n (press-papʹjé)
- Slovak: ťažítko n
- Slovene: obtežilnik m
- Spanish: pisapapeles (es) m
- Swedish: brevpress (sv)
- Turkish: prespapye
- Ukrainian: прес-пап'є́ n (pres-papʺjé)
- Vietnamese: bàn thẩm, chặn giấy
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any object used for this purpose