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Date "DEADWEIGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | 1. In maritime terms, the deadweight of a vessel is the maximum weight of the cargo, crew, stores and bunkers that it can carry when loaded so that it settles in the water to the Plimsoll line. This is also measurable by the weight of the water the vessel displaces when fully loaded less the displacement when it was unloaded. 2. Deadweight cargo is cargo of such high density that a long ton (2240 lbs.) of such cargo can be stowed in less than 70 cubic feet. (references) |
Mining | A. The weight of a vehicle or carrier itself as distinguished from carried or live load b. The difference, in tons, between a ship's displacement at load draft and light draft. It comprises cargo, bunkers, stores, fresh water, et. (references) |
Shipping | The number of tons of 2,240 pounds that a vessel can transport of cargo, stores and bunker fuel. It is the difference between the number of tons of water a vessel displaces "light" and the number of tons it displaces when submerged to the "load line." (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DEADWEIGHT |
| Specialty definitions using "DEADWEIGHT": SUPERTANDKER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | The Polish shipbuilding industry (construction and overhaul) completed and sold 37 ships in 1998. The total gross tonnage was 673,000 GT, and the total deadweight was 914,000 tons. In 1999, 26 container ships, 5 bulk cargo ships, 2 chemical cargo carriers, one ferry and one fishing vessel were built. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DEADWEIGHT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DEADWEIGHT" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DEADWEIGHT": deadweight ton. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deadweight tester | 10 |
deadweight | 9 |
deadweight loss | 3 |
anchor deadweight | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEADWEIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | непосилен товар, бреме (burden, burthen, charge, drag, drain, encumbrance, exaction, fardel, freight, incubus, load, onus, tax, tie, weight), постоянно тегло (dead load), инертна маса. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | náklad nošený bez pomoci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | doedvaegtton (deadweight ton, ton burden, ton burthen), vippemanometer (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance), stempelmanometer (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ton draagvermogen (deadweight ton, ton burden, ton burthen), manometerbalans (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | masse pure. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | totes Gewicht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βάροσ κάρου, νεκρό βάροσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bobot mati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tonnelata di portata (deadweight ton, ton burden, ton burthen), manometro a stantuffo (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance), bilancia manometrica (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 載貨屯数 (deadweight tonnage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さいかと"すう (deadweight tonnage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mealaastey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadweightday balança manométrica (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance). (various references) тяжесть (avoirdupois, heaviness), вес конструкции, мертвый груз (dead load, deadwood), бремя (burden, drag, encumbrance, load, millstone, onus). (various references) puna nosivost broda, mrtav teret. (various references) balanza manométrica (deadweight pressure gauge, free-piston gauge, manometric balance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEADWEIGHT": deadweights. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEADWEIGHT" (pronounced de"dwā't) |
| 4 | -d w ā' t | hundredweight. |
| 3 | -w ā' t | actuate, antiquate, counterweight, featherweight, fluctuate, heavyweight, middleweight, paperweight, perpetuate, underweight, welterweight. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-h-i-t-w" | |
-2 letters: weighted. | |
-3 letters: dighted, ideated, weighed. | |
-4 letters: aweigh, dawted, dawtie, dieted, edited, gaited, headed, heated, hedged, ideate, thawed, waddie, waited, wedged, wedgie, weight, whited, widget, withed. | |
-5 letters: aided, dated, dawed, death, dewed, dight, edged, eight, gaddi, gadid, gated, haded, hated, hawed, hedge, hewed, hided, tawed, tawie, tewed, tided, tweed, waded, waged, wedge, weigh, wheat, white. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-h-i-t-w" | |
+1 letter: deadweights. | |
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