Middleweight

  

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Middleweight

Definitions: Middleweight

Middleweight

Adjective

1. Of middle weight or of a middleweight category (147-160 lbs for boxers); "a middleweight boxer".

Noun

1. A wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds.

2. A boxer who weighs no more than 160 pounds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "middleweight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)


Crosswords: Middleweight

English words defined with "middleweight": junior middleweightRay Robinson, RobinsonSugar Ray RobinsonWalker Smith. (references)

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Modern Usage: Middleweight

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All I've needed is a top middleweight. (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Middleweight

DomainTitle

Books

  • Men of Steel: The Lives and Times of Boxing's Middleweight Champions (reference)

  • Weigh-In: The Selling of a Middleweight. (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Middleweight

"Middleweight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Middleweight" is used about 115 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.13%11430,294
Noun (proper)0.87%1339,140
                    Total100.00%115N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Middleweight

Expression using "middleweight": junior middleweight. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "middleweight": light-middleweight, super-middleweight.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Middleweight

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

middleweight

4

boxing middleweight

2

champion middleweight

2

boxer middleweight

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Middleweight

Language Translations for "middleweight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

میان وزن . (various references)

   

German

  

Mittelgewichtler (middle weight). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

των μεσών βαρών. (various references)

   

Italian

  

peso medio. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ミドル級 (10^-3, aerogramme, communications within a small range, middleweight class, Mila Sohon, militarism, militarist, military look, milli-, millibar, milligram, millimeter, million, million seller, millionaire, millisecond, mimic, mi-mollet, mimosa, mineral, mineral water, Minerva, minestrone, mini, mini component, mini computer, mini floppy disk, mini size, mini theater, miniature, miniature car, minibuffer, minicar, minicomputer, mini-computer, minicycle, mini-disk, minifacsimile, minim, minimalist program, minimum, minimum access, minion, minipill, mini-skirt, ministate, Minnesota, Minolta, minute steak, miracle, mirage, mirror, mirror ball, mirror site, monitor, Muenchen, Muller, Munich, museum, music, music tape, music therapy, musical, musical comedy, musical play, musical show, musician, mutant, mute, Myanmar), ライトミドル級 (Leitmotiv, light middleweight), ジュニアミドル級 (junior light, junior middleweight). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ミドルきゅう (middleweight class), ライトミドルきゅう (light middleweight), ジュニアミドルきゅう (junior middleweight). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iddleweightmay

   

Thai

  

นักมวยที่มีน้ำหนักเฉลี่ย 14 -160 ปอน"์. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

orta siklet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Middleweight

Derivations

Words beginning with "middleweight": middleweights. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Middleweight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Midleweight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Middleweight"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "middleweight" (pronounced mi"dulwā't)
3-w ā' tactuate, antiquate, counterweight, deadweight, featherweight, fluctuate, heavyweight, hundredweight, paperweight, perpetuate, underweight, welterweight.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Middleweight

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-t-w"

-3 letters: delighted, delimited.

-4 letters: gimleted, mildewed, weighted.

-5 letters: delight, delimed, delimit, dighted, lighted, limited, twiddle, weighed, whelmed, wielded.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-t-w"
 

+1 letter: middleweights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Middleweight


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 64 64 6C 65 77 65 69 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01100100 01100100 01101100 01100101 01110111 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#100 &#100 &#108 &#101 &#119 &#101 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0064 0064 006C 0065 0077 0065 0069 0067 0068 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

477570707871897175737486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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